A review by brizreading
Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence by Joel Christian Gill

5.0

As I have often said, the graphic novel memoir is a super duper saturated genre. So it takes a lot for it to be good. This one is good. VERY good. It mostly follows the author growing up in a traumatic, abusive system and family - he really doesn't get a break for the first X years of his life. As the reader, you have an enormous amount of sympathy for him, even as he projects "tough kid" attitude. This was sad, touching, but ultimately inspiring as well. Really glad I picked it up.