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New School

by Dash Shaw

Hardcover, 340 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, List Price: $39.99 |

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A boy named Danny moves to an exotic country and his infatuation with an unfamiliar culture quickly shifts to disillusionment. A sense of "being different" grows to alienation, until he angrily blames this once-enchanting land for his feelings of isolation.

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From New School by Dash Shaw. Copyright 2013 by Dash Shaw. Excerpted by permission of Fantagraphics Books.