Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey

A graphic memoir by Edel Rodriguez, depicting his journey from Cuba to America and his fight for freedom. The book has received critical acclaim for its stunning visual detail and powerful storytelling.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 07 November 2023
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

From the iconic, award-winning artist and designer, a graphic memoir of leaving Cuba, becoming American, and fighting for freedom, here and there.

Exhilarating, immensely powerful, gorgeous, PHILIPPE SANDS belongs in the pantheon that MAUS built.

PRINT MAGAZINE Shocking, brilliant, soul-shattering. . . this book is so good CHIP KIDD.

When Fidel Castro opened the Mariel harbor to let Cubans sail for America, Edel Rodriguez and his family took their chance.

From the town of El Gabriel to the Mariel port to a rickety shrimping boat bound for Florida, they joined the 1980 boatlift, becoming worms, as Castro called the departing Cubans.

Years later, Edel Rodriguez has become one of the most prominent political artists of our age, hailed for his iconic work on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world.

In stunning visual detail, Worm tells his story—of a boyhood in Cold War Cuba, of a family's courage and displacement, and of coming of age as an artist, activist, and American.

Weight: 1216g
Dimension: 199 x 263 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474616720