{"product_id":"pittsburgh-9781681377865","title":"Pittsburgh","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Frank Santoro\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New York Review Comics\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New York Review Comics\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Nonfiction - Biography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving graphic memoir about home, childhood, and family by the author of \u003ci\u003eStoreyville\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePompeii\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a family, and a city. Frank Santoro faces a straightforward yet heart-rending reality: His parents, once high-school sweethearts, now never speak to each other--despite working in the same building. Stuck in the middle, he tries to understand. The result is this book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing markers, pencils, scissors, and tape, with a variety of papers, drawing in vivid colors and exuberant lines, Santoro constructs a multi-generational retelling of their lives. Framed by his parents' courtship and marriage, and set amid the vital but fading neighborhood streets, the pages of \u003ci\u003ePittsburgh\u003c\/i\u003e are filled with details both quotidian and dramatic--from his childhood mishaps to his father's trauma in Vietnam--interspersed throughout with the mute witness of the family dog, Pretzel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSantoro, the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eStoreyville\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePompeii\u003c\/i\u003e, has created his masterpiece. \u003ci\u003ePittsburgh\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary reimagining of the comics form to depict the processes of memory, and a powerful, searching account of a family taking shape, falling apart, and struggling to reinvent itself, as the city around them does the same.","brand":"New York Review Comics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45029543575703,"sku":"9781681377865","price":2184.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781681377865.webp?v=1768542536","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/pittsburgh-9781681377865","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}