My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

2025 Whiting Award WINNER in Fiction

Kirkus Reviews Best 100 Books of the Century (So Far)

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.

Author: Emil Ferris
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 02/14/2017
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.10lbs
Size: 10.70h x 8.00w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9781606999592
ISBN10: 1606999591
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Literary
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Crime & Mystery
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Contemporary Women