Stitches : a memoir /
David Small.
- New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 2010, c2009.
- 329 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Originally published: 2009.
The author recounts in graphic novel format his troubled childhood with a radiologist father who subjected him to repeated x-rays and a withholding and tormented mother, an environment he fled at the age of sixteen in the hopes of becoming an artist.