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  "And that, of course, is Stitches' true subject: the process of rescuing oneself, of confronting traumatic events and emotions, through art. We see the young Small escaping into a cartoon world of his own creation, and we witness the adult artist using his talents to flatly reject the unhappy fate his upbringing had laid out for him. There are reconciliations, of a sort, but they aren't cathartic and redemptive, the way they can be in overdetermined fiction. They're awkward, incomplete and — like everything about the book itself — palpably, recognizably human."

via {glen weldon on npr}