Devour: A Graphic Novel

ISBN: 1419763067

Author: Joyner, Jazmine

Condition: New

In this horror graphic novel from award-winning writer Jazmine Joyner and illustrator Anthony Pugh, American Gods meets Get Out in a dark retelling of the West African legend of Anansi the Spider.In the Deep South, something evil waits in the darkness . . .Devour tells the story of the Turner family, who move to Alabama to care for their ailing matriarch, Vassie, when she begins suffering from dementia. But Vassie isnt just any old lady; shes the last of a line of powerful root women who have been caring for the community since her ancestors were first captured and enslaved by white plantation owners. Patsy, the eldest daughter in the family, is immediately suspicious; the locals fear and superstition of her grandmother leads Patsy to take a closer look at the Turner family home, and what she finds is beyond her wildest nightmares.In a magical room beneath the house, Patsy discovers the source of her familys legendary skills: the Ghanaian spider god Anansi. Driven mad by the suffering of the enslaved Africans who worshipped him, Anansi was eventually captured and contained by Patsys ancestors. As Patsy learns about her familys culture and dark past, she also realizes whats really happening to Vassie; Anansi is eating Vassies memories. With their legacy and the gods imprisonment in the balance, Patsy and her brother, Demetrius, will have to take up their grandmothers mantle-while she can still remember who they are.Devour is a terrifying new fable that delivers thrills and chills in equal measure.