Prison Island
Subtitle: a graphic memoir
By: Colleen Frakes
Publisher: Zest Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781942186021
Subjects: Families; Family; Prisons; Officials and employees; Cartoonists; Comic books, strips; Islands; Biography
Description: McNeil Island in Washington state was the home of the last prison island in the United States, accessible only by air or sea. It was also home to about fifty families, including the family of Colleen Frakes. Her parents like nearly everyone else on the island both worked in the prison, where her father was the prison's captain and her mother worked in security. In this engaging graphic memoir, a Xeric and Ignatz Award-winning comics artist, Colleen Frakes, tells the story of a typical girl growing up in atypical circumstances.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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