![]() To be fair, I figured out that this graphic novel is a continuation of the story and I never read the beginning. King had on the art, since I could only imagine that what the inside of his fertile mind looks like. I truly enjoyed the art which, to me, made the whole book come together. The artwork is melancholy and poignant, very evocative to say the least. There are many chases, shootouts, and gory deaths – some of them didn’t make any sense to me. I found the pace of the story a bit confusing, but it just could be me since, as mentioned, I don’t “get” fantasy (in book format). The graphic novel was fascinating, with several interesting characters in it (The Gunslinger is absent for most of the story). I liked the book, but don’t think I’ll do anymore reading.Ī few months back, the kids and I were at a comic book convention (they’re always fun), when I spotted Dark Tower: The Long Road Home by Stephen King (art by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove) and thought I’ll give this graphic novel a try, maybe my binary mind will understand fantasy in this format. I’m not big into the fantasy genre (love the movies, cannot read the books) but I do like westerns and thought that might be a good introduction. Last year I even picked up book 1 to read. ![]() I’ve been hearing about Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series for several years. My rating for Dark Tower: The Long Road Home - 4īuy Dark Tower: The Long Road Home from * The graphic novel is a prequel to The Dark Tower novels about the young Gunslinger Roland Deschain. Above all, it is about the power of freedom and the dreams that link and inspire Black people across borders from the perspective of one who has deep ties to, critiques of, and hope for both countries.Dark Tower: The Long Road Home by Stephen King (art by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove) is a graphic novel taking place in a universe Mr. The Long Road Home is a moving personal story and a vital examination of the nuances of racism in the United States and Canada. She then moves across the border and settles in Montreal, a unique city with a long history of transnational Black activism, but one that does not easily accept the unfamiliar and the foreign into the fold. Then she revisits her four American homes, each of which reveals something peculiar about the relationship between American racism and democracy: Boston, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the American Revolution Athens, Ohio, where the white working class and the white liberal meet Chicago, Illinois, the great Black metropolis and Eugene, Oregon, the western frontier. She was often the Only One-the only Black person in so many white spaces-in a country that perpetuates the national mythology of multiculturalism. More than a century later, Thompson still feels the echoes and intergenerational trauma of North American slavery. ![]() She begins in Shrewsbury, Ontario, one of the termini of the Underground Railroad and the place where members of her own family found freedom. In The Long Road Home, Thompson follows the roots of Black identities in North America and the routes taken by those who have crisscrossed the world’s longest undefended border in search of freedom and belonging. But her decade-long journey across Canada and the US transformed her relationship to both countries, and to the very idea of home. When Debra Thompson moved to the United States in 2010, she felt like she was returning to the land of her ancestors, those who had escaped to Canada via the Underground Railroad. FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONįrom a leading scholar on the politics of race comes a work of family history, memoir, and insight gained from a unique journey across the continent, on what it is to be Black in North America.
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