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CCS Grad Book Release: “Spring Rain” by Andy Warner ′12

The latest book from Andy Warner ′12 just released: Spring Rain: A Graphic Memoir of Love, Madness, and Revolutions (St. Martin’s Griffin). In this autobiographical comic, Andy looks back on 2005 when he traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, to study literature. He meets new friends and experiences the violent outbursts caused as repercussions of a 15-year civil war. As the city descends into chaos and violence, Andy feels his grasp on reality slipping as he confronts traumas from his past and anxiety over his future.

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This Land Is My Land by Andy Warner ′12 and Sofie Louise Dam

Cover of This Land is My Land

Andy Warner ′12 is hot on his own heels. In 2016, Andy Warner ′12 he released Brief Histories of Everyday Objects (Picador). Now he is promptly following it up with This Land is My Land with Sofie Louise Dam. Coming in May 2019 from Chronicle Books, this new nonfiction book is about thirty self-made utopias found around the globe: “from the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands to the Indian rock garden of Nek Chand. . . .”

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