Blood of the Virgin Triona Farrell Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge

Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge have finessed every allusion and tweaked every joke

Natasha Walter

the realities of the working artist

112 B&W pages

this coming-of-age story broadens the range of Vietnamese American creative voices in books for young people

Blood of the Virgin Triona Farrell Anthea Bell and Derek HockridgeBy Sammy Harkham. Published by Pantheon. Hardcover, 296 pages, Monochrome and Colour, 2023 A story about storytellingConjures up the grindhouse movie making scene in 1970s Los Angeles and tracks an ambitious young mans flailing attempts to build a family and a career as a film arteest in that debased worldA book with a lot of heart. Art Spiegelman, bestselling author of MAUS Fourteen years in the making, renowned and beloved graphic novelist Sammy