《American Widow》是2008年Random House US出版社出版的圖書，作者是Alissa Torres。
基本介紹
- 中文名：American Widow
- 作者：Alissa Torres
- 出版社：Random House US出版社
- ISBN：9780345500694
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
"At the heart of "American Widow" is the notion of Sept. 11 asa personal, rather than a national or political, tragedy, which,this achingly tender work reminds us, is exactly what it was." --LA Times
Want to honor those who passed during 9-11? Turn off the stupiddocumentary glorifying all of those images we've seen over andover, and read this sincere account of how that fateful dayeffected one person that represents all of us.” — Aint It CoolNews
“[A] raw, occasionally maddening, bracing graphic memoir…Unbearably moving.” — The New York Times Book Review
“Reading it, you feel that Torres could be your friend or neighbor;she makes an epic tragedy intimate.” — Newsday
On September 10, 2001, Eddie Torres started his dream job at CantorFitzgerald in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The nextmorning, he said goodbye to his 7?-months-pregnant wife, Alissa,and headed out the door.
In an instant, Alissa’s world was thrown into chaos. Forced to dealwith unimaginable challenges, Alissa suddenly found herself castinto the role of “9/11 widow,” tossed into a storm of bureaucracy,politics, patriotism, mourning, consolation, and, soon enough,motherhood.
Beautifully and thoughtfully illustrated, American Widow is theaffecting account of one woman’s journey through shock, pain,birth, and rebirth in the aftermath of a great tragedy. It is alsothe story of a young couple’s love affair: how a Colombianimmigrant and a strong-minded New Yorker met, fell in love, andstruggled to fulfill their dreams. Above all, American Widow is atribute to the resilience of the human heart and the very personalstory of how one woman endured a very public tragedy.
作者簡介
Alissa Torres lives in New York with her family.Choi is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has produced short comics as well as illustrations for The New York Times.
