Exit Wounds

I bought this book yesterday at Barnes & Nobel on my lunchbreak : Exit Wounds. Here's a synopsis:

"Tel Aviv-–based Modan gives American comics readers a sharp sense of Israeli life in this brilliant and moving graphic novel. The story follows Koby Franco, a young taxi driver and lost soul, as he searches for his missing father, a man who long ago left the family and may or may not have been killed in a suicide bomb attack. Assisting and prodding him is Nuni, a young soldier who was romantically involved with the missing father. Modan takes her characters across Israel and through a variety of different Israeli social strata as the search progresses. Along the way it becomes clear that Koby's father's identity is in flux—he leaves all those that he loves, but touches on everything it means to be an Israeli: family man, soldier, religious practitioner and, perhaps, victim. Modan is a deft and subtle storyteller, and her meditation on Israeli identity and the possibilities of love and trust (between father and son, woman and man) are finely wrought. Her loose, expressive drawing is both tremendously evocative and precise—always enhancing the plot. The stellar combination makes this one of the major graphic novels of 2007." The author is a woman, and she lives in Tel Aviv and teaches a comics/illustration class. Sigh, I wonder if I'll ever accomplish anything illustrated again :(

It's rediculous that I think I can just keep buying books when I have limited space at home, they've been taking over my bedroom floor and other such areas. I got home last night and decided to clean out the living room bookshelf, and I'm getting rid of some great books I simply am not going to read again. I am thinking maybe I'll list the best one's here and if anyone want them, let me know and I'll mail to you. I'm in the middle of the last book of the Dark Materials trilogy, and then I have two titles from McSweeney's lined up and 2 big graphic novels as well. What I needs is a vacation to just bunk down and read read read....