Paul Hornschemeier

A graphic novel presents the poignant tale of a young boy and his father struggling to accept the death of the family's mother.

Mother, Come Home

Hafsa

This was really depressing, not in the 'crying my eyes out' kinda way but the 'sinking feeling that makes me want to curl up in a ball' kinda way. However, I do think everyone should read this because it is a beautiful graphic novel that deals with grief at its most painful.

Angelo Zinna

With clean, distinctive art and poignant storytelling, this is a quietly stunning tale of a father and son struggling, by varying degrees of escapism and fantasy, to come to terms with the death of the boy's mother. Mother, Come Home is Paul Hornschemeier’s piercing graphic-novel debut and secured the cartoonist’s place as one of his generation’s most skillful and ambitious practitioners, and proved a harbinger of the subject matter that the artist would go on to explore most consistently in later work: the nuclear family.

Mother, Come Home

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