Pull
A Memoir of a Boy, His Dad, and the Gun Between Them: A Graphic Memoir
Will be published approx. on 4. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-06-335396-1 (ISBN)
Description
A powerful graphic memoir about the year Alex London became a skeet shooting champion and nearly lost everything. This is a story of how we survive-together. Pull is for readers of Hey Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka, Ducks by Kate Beaton, and Flamer by Mike Curato.
When he was fifteen, Alex London was keeping a secret. He kept it from his friends, from his conservative prep school, and from his family. Especially his dad, who tried so hard to connect with him, even as Alex pulled away. They seemed to have so little in common. Until his dad gave him a shotgun. On the skeet shooting range, that gun brought him closer to his dad, closer to feeling like a man, and to his first feelings of real excellence.
But it didn't make him brave enough to stop hiding who he really was. And it didn't stop him from fearing what would happen if he was found out. His gun offered another solution. One that was irreversible, irrevocable, and terrifying, just a trigger pull away. A trigger pull he couldn't stop thinking about.
Pull is the memoir of acclaimed author Alex London, strikingly illustrated in an impactful two-color format by comic artist L. Fury, illustrator of Run by John Lewis.
When he was fifteen, Alex London was keeping a secret. He kept it from his friends, from his conservative prep school, and from his family. Especially his dad, who tried so hard to connect with him, even as Alex pulled away. They seemed to have so little in common. Until his dad gave him a shotgun. On the skeet shooting range, that gun brought him closer to his dad, closer to feeling like a man, and to his first feelings of real excellence.
But it didn't make him brave enough to stop hiding who he really was. And it didn't stop him from fearing what would happen if he was found out. His gun offered another solution. One that was irreversible, irrevocable, and terrifying, just a trigger pull away. A trigger pull he couldn't stop thinking about.
Pull is the memoir of acclaimed author Alex London, strikingly illustrated in an impactful two-color format by comic artist L. Fury, illustrator of Run by John Lewis.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: Ninth Grade and over, Interest Age: From 14 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-06-335396-1 (9780063353961)
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Alex London is the acclaimed author of more than thirty books for children and teens, including the picture book Still Life, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. His middle grade novels include The Princess Protection Program, Search & Rescue, Dog Tags, and two titles in the 39 Clues series. For young adults, he's the author of the cyberpunk duology Proxy and the epic fantasy series Black Wings Beating, which were both named to numerous best-of-the-year lists. He has been a journalist and human rights researcher reporting from conflict zones and refugee camps, a young adult librarian with the New York Public Library, and a snorkel salesman. He lives with his husband, daughter, and hound dog in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
L. Fury is the illustrator of Run: Book One, which depicts the early stages of John Lewis's contributions to the civil rights movement and won the Eisner Award, among other accolades. She is also the illustrator of the comic Double Barrel Shogun, with story by Peter Cooper, and her own webcomic, Bastard Comics. She draws and writes out of her home studio in Houston, Texas.
L. Fury is the illustrator of Run: Book One, which depicts the early stages of John Lewis's contributions to the civil rights movement and won the Eisner Award, among other accolades. She is also the illustrator of the comic Double Barrel Shogun, with story by Peter Cooper, and her own webcomic, Bastard Comics. She draws and writes out of her home studio in Houston, Texas.