My Favorite Thing Is Monsters -- Emil Ferris, Paperback

2025 Whiting Award WINNER in Fiction

Kirkus Reviews Best 100 Books of the Century (So Far)

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.

Author: Emil Ferris
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 2/14/2017
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.1 lbs
Size: 10.7" H x 8" L x 1.5" W
ISBN: 9781606999592

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