Anders Nilsen, author of TONGUES: VOLUME 1 - an in-store Boswell event

Boswell Book Company welcomes three-time Igantz award-winning illustrator and cartoonist, Anders Nilsen, into the store for their new book Tongues: Volume 1. This event is cohosted by Lion's Tooth.

from Boswell. Signed copies are available on most event preorders. If you have a personalization request, enter it in "order comments" at checkout. Please note: signed copies will ship AFTER the event. Remember to select “In Store Pickup” at check out to avoid unnecessary shipping fees on books you intend to pick up at the event.

Set in a version of modern Central Asia, Tongues is a retelling of the Greek myth of Prometheus. It follows the captive god’s friendship with the eagle who carries out his daily sentence of torture and chronicles his pursuit of revenge on the god that has imprisoned him.

Alexander Chee says: "An extraordinary reinvention of some of our oldest stories. Nilsen brings these old gods to an electrifying new life, and gives us a new sense of humanity as well.” And from Mark Haddon: “Mind-bendingly good. It’s up there with Maus, Fun Home, Persepolis, Jimmy Corrigan.”

Anders Nilsen is the award winning author of Big Questions, a New York Times Notable Book, Dogs and Water, and numerous other graphic novels and comics. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Pitchfork, and Kramer’s Ergot, and Nilsen has received the Lynd Ward Prize for the Graphic Novel.

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