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Mike's Place

A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv

written by Jack Baxter and Joshua Faudem; illustrated by Koren Shadmi

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ISBN10: 1596438576
ISBN13: 9781596438576

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192 Pages

$27.99

CA$37.99

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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.

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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)

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About the author

written by Jack Baxter and Joshua Faudem; illustrated by Koren Shadmi

Jack Baxter is a filmmaker and freelance journalist from New York City. He and his wife Fran Strauss-Baxter co-produced the award-winning film "Blues by the Beach."

Joshua Faudem is an American-Israeli documentary filmmaker who has made many notable documentaries and television shows in Israel and Europe and is the director of the award-winning documentary "Blues by the Beach."

Koren Shadmi's graphic novels have been published in France, Italy, Spain, Israel, and the US. His work was selected for the Best American Comics 2009 anthology edited by Charles Burns and his illustrations have won several awards at the Society of Illustrators.

The graphic novel Mike's Place is their first collaboration.

Gerald Lerner Photography

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