Overview
A Filipino-American take on Depression-era noir featuring mistaken identities, speakeasies, and lost love. The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields, picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a co-worker s favorite nightclub suit and heads to the big city to find her. What follows is classic noir with seedy dives, mouthy pool sharks, and obsession. Rina Ayuyang indulges her passion for old Hollywood and elaborate movie musicals while exploring her immigrant roots in a playful and mysterious drama, creating something she never saw but always had hoped for a classic tale about people who looked just like her. The Man in the McIntosh Suit is a gripping, romantic, and psychological exploration of a fledgling community chasing the American dream in an unwelcoming society heightened by racial hostility and the bubbling undercurrent of the coming Great Depression.
Full Product Details
Author: Rina Ayuyang
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Imprint: Drawn and Quarterly
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781770466661
ISBN 10: 1770466665
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 02 May 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Readers will be swept off their feet by this irresistible bildungsroman. --Publishers Weekly [Ayuyang's] art is absolutely gorgeous.--Bookriot Rendered entirely with colored pencils, Ayuyang's art is full of vibrant vitality.--The AV Club
Readers will be swept off their feet by this irresistible bildungsroman. Publishers Weekly
Readers will be swept off their feet by this irresistible bildungsroman. Publishers Weekly
Author Information
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Rina Ayuyang was always inspired by the Sunday newspaper funnies and slice-of-life tales. Her short stories have been nominated for the Ignatz and Eisner Awards, and she has been honored with a MoCCA Arts Festival Award of Excellence silver medal. Her comics have appeared in Mutha Magazine and The Comics Journal. She is also the publisher of the micro-comics imprint Yam Books. Her first book was Whirlwind Wonderland. Ayuyang lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and son.
