Ash's Cabin
Jen Wang
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Ash has always felt alone.
Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash's age are more interested in pop stars and popularity contests than in fighting for change. Even Ash's family seems to be sleepwalking through life. The only person who ever seemed to get Ash was their Grandpa Edwin. Before he died, he used to talk about building a secret cabin, deep in the California wilderness. Did he ever build it? What if it's still there, waiting for him to come back...or for Ash to find it? To Ash, that maybe-mythical cabin is starting to feel like the perfect place for a fresh start and an escape from the miserable feeling of alienation that haunts their daily life. But making the wilds your home isn't easy. And as much as Ash wants to be alone...can they really be happy alone? Can they survive alone? From New York Times-bestselling author and illustrator Jen Wang comes a singularly affecting story about self-discovery, self-reliance, and the choice to live when it feels like you have no place in the world.Product Details
Price
$17.99
$16.73
Publisher
First Second
Publish Date
August 13, 2024
Pages
320
Dimensions
5.9 X 8.5 X 0.7 inches | 1.41 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781250754066
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About the Author
Jen Wang is the award-winning NYT Bestselling author and illustrator of several graphic novels for young readers including Stargazing, The Prince and The Dressmaker, In Real Life (co-written with Cory Doctorow), and Koko Be Good. Jen's honors include two Eisner Awards, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Children's Literature Award, and the Fauve d'Angoulême Youth Award. She is based in Los Angeles and is a co-founder and organizer for Comic Arts LA.
Reviews
Included the New York Times round-up of "8 Comics to Read This Pride Month"
"Ash's Cabin is a beautiful book. Jen Wang does amazing work in deftly contrasting Ash's interior journey in their relationship with a hostile external world. It's a gorgeous meditation on fear, loneliness, and building a place to feel at home in your own heart." --Trung Le Nguyen, creator of The Magic Fish "Heart-wrenching and powerful, Ash's Cabin sucked me in and I couldn't stop until I got to the end. Ash's story couldn't be more relevant today. I just loved it." --Tillie Walden, Eisner Award-winning creator of Spinning "A fierce and tender story about the lengths you will go to connect in a way that matters, during a time in your life when those connections feel so hard. Timely, empathetic, and masterfully drawn, exactly what Jen Wang has always excelled at." --Kate Beaton, #1 New York Times-bestselling creator of Hark! A Vagrant and Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. "Wang masterfully adapts this storyline for contemporary audiences, seamlessly weaving questions of identity, gender, race (Ash has Chinese and Irish ancestry), and climate change into this fundamental tale of survival. Searing and radiant." -- Kirkus, starred review "Wang (Stargazing) delivers a stunning, contemplative wilderness adventure via muted earth-tone watercolors that tackles head-on the present-day experience of living in what often feels like a time of apocalyptic change." --Publisher's Weekly, starred review "Wang's emotive, empathic illustrations elevate an already impactful narrative into a stupendous visual masterpiece, with and without panels, swathed in daytime California golds and chillier nighttime blues. Perfection--literary and artistic--awaits here." -Booklist, starred review "This book is a page-turner and readers will both worry and cheer for Ash every step of the way. Highly recommended for all middle school and high school libraries." -School Library Journal, starred review "Wang, who has given readers drag queen princes and medical dramas, has developed a story that is adventurous, sensitive, and realistic. Readers of graphic novels, queer fiction, nonfiction, and wilderness stories should all find something to adore here." --Shelf Awareness, starred review"Beautiful, complex and affirming, Ash's Cabin will prompt deep conversations about how best to support one another and our environment, at a time when the future is uncertain and peace can be hard to find."
--BookPage, starred review "Wang communicates with breathless tension the high stakes of solo survival in the Californian wilderness, from foraging mistakes and luckless-to-terrifying altercations with wildlife to big-picture issues of climate crisis that hang like wildfire smoke over the narrative." --BCCB, starred review "Wang has updated the classic survival story for today's socially conscious and gender expansive teens with this thoughtfully wrought graphic novel that pays loving homage to treasured titles such as Hatchet and My Side of the Mountain." -Horn Book Magazine
