Mike's Place
A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv
ISBN10: 1596438576
ISBN13: 9781596438576
Hardcover
192 Pages
$27.99
CA$37.99
There's a rule at Mike's Place: never, ever talk politics or religion. At this blues bar on the Tel Aviv beachfront, an international cast of characters mingles with the locals, and everyone is welcome to grab a beer and forget the conflict outside. At least, that's the story Jack and Joshua want to tell in their documentary.
But less than a month after they begin filming, Mike's Place is the target of a deadly suicide bombing. Jack, Joshua, and the Mike's Place family survive the only way they know how-by keeping the camera rolling.
Written by filmmakers Jack Baxter and Joshua Faudem and illustrated by award-winning cartoonist Koren Shadmi, Mike's Place chronicles the true story of an infamous terrorist attack in painstaking detail. Rarely has the slow build to tragedy, and the rebirth that follows, been captured with such a compassionate and unflinching eye.
Reviews
Praise for Mike's Place
“This is a well-written and drawn graphic novel that brings home the violence that the people in Israel face daily . . . The senseless violence is brought to life.”—VOYA (starred review)