Spring Rain: A Graphic Memoir Of Love, Madness, And Revolutions

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An intimate graphic memoir by a New York Timesbestselling writer about his semester abroad in Beirut as he grows close to a crowd of mostly LGBTQ students and suffers a mental breakdown while the city erupts into revolutionAn evocative memoir Joe SaccoIn 2005 Andy Warner travelled to Lebanon to study literature in Beirut one of the worlds most cosmopolitan and storied cities Twentyone years old and recently broken up from his girlfriend Warner feels his life is both intense and directionless Immersing himself in the vibrant and diverse city he quickly befriends a group of LGBT students many of whom are expats straddling different cultures and embracing the freedoms of the multicultural city Warner and his friends party do drugs and hook up even as violence breaks out in the citythe scars of a fifteenyear civil war reopening with a series of political assassinations and bombings As the city descends into chaos and violence Warner feels his grasp on reality slowly begin to slip as he confronts traumas in his past and anxiety over his futureIllustrated in beautiful and intricate detail Spring Rain is an absorbing and poignant graphic memoir of a young mans attempt to gain control over his life as well as a portrait of a city and a nations violent struggle to define its future