Culture Shock

Friday night and it was time to decompress. After work I headed over to my friend, Erica's, new apartment. We were going to have a "low-budget" night in with some pizza, fruit and her famous homemade sangria. I am absolutely hopeless when it comes to being domestic so after being shooed out of the kitchen I see her gentleman caller sipping his sangria and reading. I thought he had brought this copy over and was passing the time by squeezing in a few pages. He actually found the book in Erica's newly built bookshelf. She later tells us that she hasn't read it since receiving the book as a present a while ago.


The book is called "Becoming Mexican American" by George J. Sanchez. None of us were really sure what the book was about however David said there were many pictures and other interesting visuals. Is he compelled and fascinated enough to get into this book? Yes, most likely.



After thumbing through the pages of this book I found him flipping through Maus by Art Spiegelman. Want to know a secret? I never read this book! I've been meaning to and since Erica has a copy she is going to let me borrow it. She had to read it in college for her Holocaust literature class. Interestingly enough I wanted to take that same class because I could always see the book on the shelves whenever I'd pick up copies of the required reading for all my classes every quarter. I will finally cross this book off my list...soon enough.

What are some of your favourite graphic novels?