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Happiness Will Follow

  • Annotation:
    • This author’s memoir details growing up in poverty and his complicated relationship with his abusive single mother, and what it means to be Puerto Rican in America.
  • Creator:
  • Publication Information:
    • Classical Comics LTD, United Kingdom, 2020
  • Color or Black & White:
    • Color
  • Genre:
    • Autobiography/Memoir
  • Bibliography Available:
    • No
  • Original Language:
    • English
  • Historical Topic/Event:
    • child abuse
    • poverty
  • Geographic Setting:
    • Pennsylvania -- York
  • Date Range:
    • 1970s - 2000s
  • Tags:
  • Notes:
    • Eisner Award-nominated artist
Graphic History

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Funded in part by a Carnegie-Whitney Grant from the American Library Association.

Graphic History is a database of available/in-print graphic novels dealing with historical settings, events, or people. It is hosted by the University of Iowa Libraries.
Learn more at http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/graphichistory.

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