“A beautiful book that manages to capture the wonderment of being a young half black, half Persian boy in Louisiana.…
this book feels like magic and makes me believe magic is real.”
– Roxane Gay
author of nyt bestselling bad feminist
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Built out of his New Orleans boyhood, Anis’ fourth book, The Pocketknife Bible, carries its readers through the wild, terrible, and adventurous country of a surreal childhood––where dead grandfathers fly kites and loaded men grow operas in the earth. To save himself, a boy uses his dreams to travel through time, delivering snapshots of his wondrous young heart to the dark sky of his future self. Through a creative hybrid of poetic journey and graphic novella, Mojgani weaves dream-like tales with striking honesty, making the ordinary almost magical. Innocent and heartbreaking, his work allows readers to remember and experience a childhood that is not their own but feels like it was.
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