{"product_id":"the-nightingales","title":"The Nightingales","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEmil Wilson is an artist living in San Fransico, California. \n\u003ci\u003eThe Nightingales\u003c\/i\u003e is his first graphic novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"This graphic novel is stunning in every way. Wilson forgos panels in favor of a format that is part sketchbook, part journal, and part scrapbook--a choice that gives both the visuals and the narrative room to breathe. The artwork has an intimacy and immediacy that complements the text beautifully, and the vibrant color palette communicates the joy that the relationship between Lou and Jim brings them both. . . . Absolutely gorgeous, visually and emotionally.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An achievement in visual storytelling . . . This solemn coming-of-age story is a deeply personal look at how the stigma of AIDS affected the quality of care and level of empathy received by those lost and a heartbreaking tale of how even the briefest of touches on someone's life can last a lifetime and beyond.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[A] a pensive but ultimately hopeful debut. . . Wilson renders it all in loose colored pencil sketches, with dialogue typed on slips of paper and taped to the page--a scrapbook approach attuned to the fragmentary nature of memory. Intimate and soft-spoken, this family album finds a hard-won note of grace in America's fraught early reckoning with AIDS.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Emil Wilson's \n\u003ci\u003eThe Nightingales\u003c\/i\u003e is a book awash with tenderness, with the audacity and courage to make a room for kindness, with art that performs on each and every page the beautiful and most humane acts of remembering--particular, impressionistic, incomplete, eidetic, afire with humor and compassion. Here is an extraordinary achievement that takes history and offers it to the future as the most forgiving gift.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Mark Z. Danielewski, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHouse of Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" \n\u003ci\u003eThe Nightingales\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply moving book that brings to vivid life the alienation so many of us have felt on the road to adulthood as it illustrates the transformative power of friendship. I was overwhelmed with emotion on every page of this gorgeous graphic work. Emil Wilson manages to convey the quirky joys as well as the horrors of the 1980s--highlighting the relentless nightmare of the early days of AIDS--while also speaking to issues that couldn't be more current. Here is a book that richly deserves a place alongside coming-of-age classics like \n\u003ci\u003eRunning with Scissors\u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003eFun Home\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Will Schwalbe, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Your Life Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Tender and humane. I loved this book.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Mark Haddon, author of\u003ci\u003e The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A singularly beautiful book, the subtlety of its layered and playful visuals a match for the emotional intricacies of this family drama and coming of age story.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Emma Donoghue, author of \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" \n\u003ci\u003eThe Nightingales\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most moving, impactful, and beautiful books I've experienced in a long time. I devoured it in one sitting. I laughed, I cursed, I gasped, I cried my face off. The illustrations are gorgeous, smart, compelling; the storytelling is nuanced and poignant, yet funny. A unique and deeply-felt story about the relationship between a teenager, her family, two Pomeranians, and a man dying of AIDS in the mid-80s, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Nightingales\u003c\/i\u003e is a tender, heartbreaking, and unforgettable look at the early days of the AIDS crisis in a small town in Oregon--it's also a reminder of what it means to live now.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Kate Schatz, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eRad American History A-Z\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Gorgeously illustrated and emotionally piercing, this coming-of-age story set at the height of the AIDS epidemic shows how impactful one friendship can be on the direction of a life. Nuanced, empathetic, and impossible to set down. Highly recommended!\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Maia Kobabe, author of \u003ci\u003eGender Queer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Told with the utmost care, Emil Wilson's The Nightingales is exactly the kind of scathing, compassionate, and tragic family portrait that I love the most. I've urgently and insistently recommended this to every friend and loved one, so that I might have some company in laughing and crying and savouring this beautifully drawn story.\" \n\u003cb\u003e --Lee Lai, LAMDA-award winning author of \u003ci\u003eCannon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"It sneaks up on you, this special, quiet book of visual beauty and sentiment, simply but powerfully expressed; it brought me to tears. I lingered over every page of \n\u003ci\u003eThe Nightingales--\u003c\/i\u003eso exquisite is its reproduction of the qualities of an artist's sketchbook--and I was so touched by its story, that of a bold act of kindness and generosity that upends the lives of a fractured family. It was one of those rare reading experiences: I'll not only always remember the book, but also the afternoon I read it. Its final image is unforgettable.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Timothy Schaffert, author of \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTitanic Survivors Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" \n\u003ci\u003eThe Nightingales\u003c\/i\u003e is a book filled with heart and warmth and colour. Though there is loss and grief at its core, it sings about freedom and the vivid urgency of life. Inspiring and full of hope, it's a book whose soul stays with you long after you've turned the last page.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Seán Hewitt, author of \u003ci\u003eOpen, Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" \n\u003ci\u003eThe Nightingales\u003c\/i\u003e is as brilliant as it is beautiful, a study in family and kindness, of doing the right thing, of not the doing the right thing, of surviving a home fraught with dysfunction. Emil Wilson shows us that under duress some people can show immense kindness and warmth while others just falter and wither. \n\u003ci\u003eThe Nightingales\u003c\/i\u003e is a serious gem.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Willy Vlautin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Left and the Lucky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A beautiful, honest book about friendship and family.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Lizzy Stewart, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wreck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A moving, accessible work that emphasizes the transformative power of compassion in the face of fear.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"A coming-of-age story for the ages. All ages. For anyone who has lived through loss (and who hasn't?), \u003ci\u003eThe Nightingales\u003c\/i\u003e is a blessing sung after the tears have slowed down. This book is a triumph.\" --Gregory Maguire, author of \u003ci\u003eWicked\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBased on a true story, an exquisitely illustrated, singular graphic novel about a life-changing friendship between a seventeen-year-old girl and the dying stranger who moves into her family's home.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's the spring of 1985 and Lou Miller is weeks away from graduating high school when her father, Donald, invites his coworker, Jim, and his two dogs, Henny and Penny, to move into their home. Jim has been evicted from his apartment and fallen on hard times, but there is more to the situation than Lou or her mother, Annemarie, realize. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jim's arrival upends the lives of this small-town Oregon family. As Annemarie grows increasingly uneasy about sharing her home with a stranger, Lou finds herself drawn to Jim's warmth, humor, and quiet resilience. Their unlikely bond carries Jim through the most difficult months of his life and gives Lou the courage to imagine a future beyond the bounds of her hometown. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tender, surprising, and full of hope, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Nightingales\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable story about compassion, family, and the unexpected ways one person's life can alter another's.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2026 pg. 84 (EAN 9781668217771, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781668217771, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 07\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781668217771, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eWilson, Emil\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEmil Wilson is an artist living in San Fransico, California. \n\u003ci\u003eThe Nightingales\u003c\/i\u003e is his first graphic novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Avid Reader Press \/ Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496141619478,"sku":"9781668217771","price":45.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9781668217771.jpg?v=1783053870","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/the-nightingales","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}