About the Author:
~THE AUTHORS~
Mia Kirshner has worked as an actor in film and television; among her credits are Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia and The L Word. I Live Here is her first book.
J.B. MacKinnon is the award-winning author of Dead Man in Paradise and Plenty.
Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge are award-winning creative directors, most notably for Adbusters magazine, who have conceptualized books, magazines, television spots, and major international advocacy campaigns.
~CONTRIBUTORS~
Chris Abani is a professor at the University of California, Riverside, whose writing has earned honors including the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award. His novels and poetry collections include Song For Night, GraceLand, and Hands Washing Water.
Lynn Coady is a fiction writer and essayist; her most recent novels are Mean Boy and Saints of Big Harbour.
Karen Comins is currently completing an illustrated journal of her life and natural history fieldwork in southern Africa.
Karen Connelly is the author of seven books of bestselling nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, including The Lizard Cage and Dream of a Thousand Lives: A Sojourn in Thailand.
Phoebe Gloeckner is an artist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. Her works include The Diary of a Teenage Girl and A Child’s Life.
Kamel Khélif is a French-Algerian writer and artist whose works include The Exiles and Homicide.
Lauren Kirshner is the author of Fun and Other Stories of Home, to be published by McClelland & Stewart in spring 2009.
Ann-Marie MacDonald is a writer and actor whose novels include the bestselling Fall On Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies.
Julie Morstad divides her time between drawing, illustration, animation, and design. Her recent works include When You Were Small (with Sara O’Leary).
Joe Sacco is a renowned “cartoon journalist” whose works include But I Like It, Palestine, and Safe Area Gorazde.
Also featuring artwork by Sean Campbell, Cissors, Tara Hach, Edward Kasinje, Lackson Manyawa, Niall McLelland, Tina Medina, Tiffany Monk, Georgie Russell, Seamrippers Craft Collective, Valerie Thai, and Felix Yakobe.
Review:
“Powerful. . . . A touching, gorgeously produced, and thoughtfully edited compilation of stories from the world’s trouble spots. . . . Combines reportage, photography, fiction, and comics to create a group portrait of the lives of refugees and displaced people worldwide.” –New York Magazine
“Gut-wrenching–and hauntingly beautiful.” –Glamour
“Elaborately designed in its look, knottily layered in its content and far afield from the entertainment world in its subject matter . . . I Live Here is no vanity project.” –Los Angeles Times
“Compelling.” –Elle
“Gives a voice to the voiceless, vividly and beautifully illustrating the lives of marginalized women and children.” –Tribeca Film
“A potent and provocative graphic delivery system for unspeakable real-world horrors. . . . Each section elegantly manages to balance the personal and political aspects of its respective crisis.” –The Village Voice
“Intense. . . . Disturbing. . . . Effective. . . . With I Live Here, Kirshner shines an unwavering, informative light on important and troubling non-U.S.-centric issues in a truthful and often disturbing manner. She elevates celebrity philanthropic efforts to an extraordinary new level of sophistication in content and style. . . . One of the finest looking publications ever produced. In toto, the package forms an amazing work of art. An exceptional book of rare quality, I Live Here exceeds all expectations.” –The San Antonio Current
“Kirshner has taken a more deliberate, less paparazzi-infested approach to global suffering in I Live Here.” –Seattle Weekly
“Stunning, heartbreaking, riveting. True.” –January Magazine
“A harrowing, moving and memorable book. . . . Using first-person accounts, original art and prose, [I Live Here] is uniquely evocative in its presentation of the life-and-death struggles of marginalized people.” –Toronto Star
“Intimate. . . . Moving.” –mtvU
“Beautiful. . . . Heartbreaking. . . . Extremely personal and intimate. . . . The stories, woven throughout the beautiful illustrations and the sometimes-disturbing photos, are a wake-up call to the atrocities that are occurring daily.” –Curve Magazine
“A remarkable assemblage of refugee stories. . . . [This] composite of four notebooks designed to be taught, read, spoken of and remembered, not only chronicles the lives she encountered, but it gives them each a voice. . . . Mia’s not in any way preachy, she’s just determined to do whatever it takes to make this world a better place to live in for those whose lives are lived in the margins.” –The SunPost (Miami)
“A harrowing tribute to the overlooked victims of war. . . . Innovative, moving.” –The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“A vibrant, passionate look at lives affected by poverty, violence, and political repression. . . . [A] brave attempt to break beyond standard documentary approaches.” –Planet Magazine
“Creatively compiled. . . . Beautifully constructed. . . . We can’t all make the remarkable journeys Kirshner has, but with this book, she serves as our unexpected ambassador.” –Modern Tonic
“I Live Here brings to life those who blend into the crowds we see on the news every day. . . . [It] makes a strong attempt to bring to life the world’s oppressed in a way the news media cannot.” –The Georgia Straight (Vancouver)
“I Live Here is not just another Hollywood starlet story.” –The Kansas City Star
“Kirshner–with the help of Mackinnon, Shoebridge, and Simons–does an exceptional job putting a human face to devastating problems to which people of developed nations have become desensitized. I Live Here is both heartwrenching and beautiful, inspiring readers (without ever preaching) to reach out to those in need.”–BookLoons.com
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