Rating: 5.00 (1 ratings)
First published 2012
Joe Kavalier steps off a boat in 1939 Brooklyn, an escape artist fleeing Nazi-occupied Prague. His cousin Sammy Clay dreams of cashing in on America's comic book craze. Together they create the Escapist, a fascist-fighting superhero, and Luna Moth, his mysterious nocturnal partner. As Hitler's shadow spreads across Europe, the teenage cousins climb from Brooklyn's streets to Manhattan's heights, spinning tales that mirror their own struggles with fear, ambition, and identity. Joe channels his need to rescue his trapped family into stories of heroic liberation. Sammy transforms his outsider status into comic book gold. Their partnership carries them through the Golden Age of comics, but success brings complications neither boy anticipated. This Pulitzer Prize winner captures how two young men forge art from trauma, turning personal battles into universal stories of hope and resistance.
Genres: american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, adventure
Vibes: emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Brooklyn, Manhattan, Prague
Period: 1939
658 pages · Kindle Edition · Random House
Content warnings: war
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