The Life of a Coat Filipe Melo An instant New York Times

An instant New York Times bestseller

A massive and moving achievement

The mind at work here thinks about less obvious ways of achieving truths

This heartfelt graphic biography is a tribute to the artist’s grandmothers and a generation of women who quietly soldiered through over forty years of Fascist rule in Spain

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The Life of a Coat Filipe Melo An instant New York TimesBy Kadya Molodowsky & Batia Kolton. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 28 pages, Colour, 2019. This comic in childrens book format is about the whimsical lifespan of a coat, worn by each child in a family. When the father of a large family makes a beautiful winter coat, little does he know how much use it will get. Little Gedalia wears the coat with pride all year, but when it gets too tight for himhes a growing boy, after allits given to his