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David Small´s long-awaited graphic novel is a savage portrayal of male adolescence gone awry like no other work of recent fiction or film.

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Wildly kaleidoscopic and furiously cinematic, Home After Dark is a literary tour-de-force that renders the brutality of adolescence in the so-called nostalgic 1950s, evoking such classics as The Lord of the Flies. Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to sun-splashed California in search of a dream. Suddenly forced to fend for himself, Russell struggles to survive in Marshfield, a dilapidated town haunted by a sadistic animal killer and a ring of malicious boys who bully Russell for being "queer. Rescued from his booze-swilling father by Wen and Jian Mah, a Chinese immigrant couple who long for a child, Russell betrays their generosity by running away with their restaurant´s proceeds.

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David Small, author of The New York Times best-selling Stitches, is the recipient of the Caldecott Medal, the Christopher Medal and the E. B. White Award.

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