The Blue Road

Name: The Blue Road
ISBN: 9781551527772

A Fable of Migration

Wayde Compton

Arsenal Pulp Press · Print & ebook · October 1, 2019

A Quill and Quire Best Book of the Year In this stunning graphic novel, Lacuna is a girl without a family, a past, or a proper home.

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Who it’s for: Migration becomes a dreamlike fable of strange borders, dazzling magic, and starting over.
Themes: Migration, Search for belonging, Starting over
Genres: YA Fantasy Comics, Immigration for Teens, Diverse YA Graphic Novels

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A Quill and Quire Best Book of the Year In this stunning graphic novel, Lacuna is a girl without a family, a past, or a proper home. She lives alone in a swamp made of ink, but with the help of Polaris, a will-o'-the-wisp, she embarks for the fabled Northern Kingdom, where she might find people like her. The only way to get there, though, is to travel the strange and dangerous Blue Road that stretches to the horizon like a mark upon a page.

Along the way, Lacuna must overcome trials such as the twisted briars of the Thicket of Tickets and the intractable guard at the Rainbow Border. At the end of her treacherous journey, she reaches a city where memory and vision can be turned against you, in a world of dazzling beauty, divisive magic, and unlikely deliverance. Finally, Lacuna learns that leaving, arriving, returning - they're all just different words for the same thing: starting all over again. The Blue Road - the first graphic novel by acclaimed poet and prose writer Wayde Compton and illustrator April dela Noche Milne - explores the world from a migrant's perspective with dreamlike wonder.

A Road of Wonder

Migration becomes a dreamlike fable of strange borders, dazzling magic, and starting over.

Come here for

The visual strangeness of an ink-swamp and a road stretching to the horizon
A migrant’s perspective told through folklore and graphic-novel imagery

Expect

Treacherous trials and uncanny borders
Beauty, danger, memory, and divisive magic

Where it sits

YA Fantasy Comics	79%
Immigration for Teens	68%
Diverse YA Graphic Novels	31%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

Literary Graphic Novels
Black Fiction
YA Graphic Novels
Immigration for Teens

Authors: Wayde Compton
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: October 1, 2019
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Migration · Search for belonging · Starting over
Reading lane: Literary Graphic Novels