- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- ISBN: 9781787336568
- Length: 416 pages
- Price: £25.00
Gregory Maguire, author of WickedA coming-of-age story for the ages. All ages. For anyone who has lived through loss (and who hasn’t?), The Nightingales is a blessing sung after the tears have slowed down. This book is a triumph.
Mark Z. Danielewski, author of House of LeavesThe Nightingales is a book awash with tenderness, with the audacity and courage to make a room for kindness, with art that performs on each and every page the beautiful and most humane acts of remembering — particular, impressionistic, incomplete, eidetic, afire with humor and compassion. Here is an extraordinary achievement that takes history and offers it to the future as the most forgiving gift.
Maia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer: A MemoirGorgeously illustrated and emotionally piercing, this coming-of-age story set at the height of the AIDs epidemic shows how impactful one friendship can be on the direction of a life. Nuanced, empathetic, and impossible to set down. Highly recommended!
Lee Lai, author of CannonTold with the utmost care, Emil Wilson’s The Nightingales is exactly the kind of scathing, compassionate, and tragic family portrait that I love the most. I’ve urgently and insistently recommended this to every friend and loved one, so that I might have some company in laughing and crying and savouring this beautifully drawn story.
About Emil Wilson
Emil Wilson is an art director, illustrator, and comic artist based in San Francisco. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, as well as on billboards, gas station walls, NPR, the Oscars, and the Super Bowl. In 2020, he was nominated for a Broken Pencil (Canada) award and earned an Ignatz nomination for "Promising New Talent. The Nightingales is his debut graphic novel.
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