My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Ferris Emil) Szprotawa

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. Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers the pub quiz and afternoons at home with his cat Trouble. His days of adventure are over – that’s his daughter-in-law Amy’s business now. Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul, which makes being a private security officer to billionaires the perfect job. She’s currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie D’Antonio alive. Then a dead body, a bag of money and a killer with their sights on Amy have her sending Steve an SOS... As a breakneck race around the world begins, can they stay one step ahead of a deadly enemy? Autor: Emil Ferris Rok wydania: 2017 Oprawa: Miękka Wysokość: 268 Szerokość: 205 Głębokość: 32.000000 Liczba stron: 416 Grupa wiekowa: + Isbn: 9781606999592 Rodzaj: Książki Wydanie: 1