Stitches

       Stitches by David Small, this book deals with many social issue's like, be in debt and health care in the country. Although this is a graphic novel it deals with mature idea's, when David is little he gets dressed up like Alice from Alice in Wonderland and goes out to play. He is chased by the other little kids and is called "GAY", for doing this. Later in the book David develops a small growth on the side of his neck, when he asks his mother if he can go to the  doctor his mother says "no doctors cost money and that is in scare supply in this house." Then finally when he goes and has it removed there has to be a second operation to take place because it turns out that the growth is cancerous. So in this book although it is a graphic novel there are still big issues in it.