Giveaway: Day 6

Giveaway day #6 brings you the graphic novel The Imposter's Daughter by Laurie Sandell. I am excited to be receiving my own copy of this one since it will be only my second graphic novel ever. And thanks to the generosity of the folks at Hatchette, I'm able to give it away to five of my readers.

Amazon writes:

In this delightfully composed graphic novel, journalist Sandell (Glamour) illustrates a touchingly youthful story about a daughter's gushing love for her father. Using a winning mixture of straightforward comic-book illustrations with a first-person diarylike commentary, Sandell recounts the gradual realization from her young adulthood onward that her charming, larger-than-life Argentine father, bragging of war metals, degrees from prestigious universities and acquaintances with famous people, had lied egregiously to his family about his past and accomplishments. Growing up with her two younger sisters and parents first in California, then in Bronxville, N.Y., the author records signs along the way that her father, a professor of economics with a volatile temperament and autocratic manner, was hiding something, from his inexplicable trips out of town, increasing paranoid isolation, early name change from Schmidt to Sandell, to massive credit-card fraud. Interviewing her father for her first magazine article, the author resolved to check his sources and even flew later to confront his past in Argentina, only to discover the truth. Feeling betrayed, guilty for exposing him and mistrustful in her relationships with men, Sandell numbed herself by abusing Ambien and alcohol. Her depiction of her rehab adventure is rather pat and tidy, and she does not address the notion that her own creativity might have sprung from her father's very duplicity. However, Sandell's method of storytelling is marvelously unique and will surely spark imitators.

The rules:

US and Canada only
No PO Boxes
One entry for commenting on this post.
One entry for following me.
One entry for blogging or tweeting this giveaway (be sure to let me know you've done this by posting a link).
Leave a valid e-mail address so that I can contact you if you win.
Winner will be chosen the morning of July 14th.

Come back tomorrow for the finale to giveaway week. Like a fireworks grand finale on the Fourth of July, I'll be offering up a whole slew of options for the final day of giveaways here.