This Country
Book description
A gorgeously illustrated debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a home in the remote American West, by New Yorker cartoonist Navied Madhavian.
Before Navied Mahdavian moved from San Francisco in November 2016 to an off-grid cabin rural Idaho, one of the most remote and wild areas of the…
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Why read it?
1 author picked This Country as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As a memoirist who writes about adventures in rural America, I wanted to learn how an Iranian American man experienced life off the grid in a tiny home in rural Idaho. The fact that This Country is also a graphic memoir made it that much more appealing as the graphic form seems well-suited to tense subject matter (plus it’s fun and easy to read). The result is a lightness about experiences like guns, politics, and race that would feel harder without the images.
I love the depictions of how Mahdavian and his wife navigate relationships with neighbors and locals. The…