This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

"In Mahdavian's hands, comics feel like poetry. Perfect ink drawings bring land, beast, and humans, with all...
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Author: Navied Mahdavian
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This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Mahdavian, Navied

This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

¥5,853

This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

¥5,853
Author: Navied Mahdavian
Format: Paperback
Language: English
"In Mahdavian's hands, comics feel like poetry. Perfect ink drawings bring land, beast, and humans, with all their delicacy and yearning, viscerally to life. This Country ... made me want to grant my own surroundings the grace, humor, and dignity of Mahdavian's observant study." --Amy Kurzweil, cartoonist and author of Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir

A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a home in the remote American West, by New Yorker cartoonist Navied Mahdavian.

Before Navied Mahdavian moved with his wife and dog in November of 2016 from San Francisco to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Idaho, he had never fished, gardened, hiked, hunted, or lived in a snowy place. But there, he could own land, realize his dream of being an artist, and start a family--the Millennial dream. Over the next three years, Mahdavian leaned into the wonders of the natural Idaho landscape and found himself adjusting to and enjoying a slower pace of living. But beyond the boundaries of his six acres, he was confronted with the realities of America's political shifts and forced to confront the question: Do I belong here?

Mahdavian's beautifully written and unflinchingly honest graphic memoir charts his growth and struggles as an artist, citizen, and new father. It celebrates his love of place and honors the relationships he makes in rural America, touching on dynamics like culture, environment, and identity in America, and even articulating difficult moments of racism and brutality he found there as a Middle Eastern American. With wit, compassion, and a sense of humor, Mahdavian's insider perspective offers a unique portrait of one of the most remote and wild areas of the American West.

Author: Navied Mahdavian
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 09/12/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781797223674


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/26/2023
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2023
Booklist 07/01/2023 pg. 42

About the Author
Navied Mahdavian has been a contributing cartoonist at the New Yorker since 2018. His work has also been published in Reader's Digest, Wired, and Alta Online and the books The Rejection Collection and Send Help! Before becoming a cartoonist, he taught the fifth grade, where he learned most of his jokes. Mahdavian was born in Miami and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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