Description
Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth is obsessed with Princess Diana, in the specific, laser-focused way an autistic person can be. This book is an unorthodox biography of Diana Spencer told through a particular autistic and transmasculine lens, examining issues of identity and self-determination, and the mythological parallels in the lives of the royal family and the author.
Virtual Nationwide author tour. Possible New England regional tour.
Major review attention
National media
Online/social media promotion
Academic marketing
Buzz mailings to LGBTQ organizations
Potential strategic partnerships: Aids Healthcare Foundation, FLUX, The Trevor Project, GLADD, LAMBDA, GLSEN
Promotion through the author's Instagram account: @sivanbasha
Bookseller/Library promotions:
- ARC giveaways through the ABA Advance Access Newsletter
- Blad giveaways to librarians and educators who attend the NY Public Library Programming at NYComicCon, and the Brooklyn Book Festival.
- Graphic novel panels at ComicCon@Home, ALA Annual, and at NYComicCon.
About the Author
Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he studied art and English literature. He has published cartoons in The New Yorker among other places. Having spent a year working as a teacher in a Jewish day school, Sivan is now a Rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts. This is his debut graphic novel.
Reviews
"In this unorthodox survey of the Princess of Wales's life and legacy, comics newcomer Piatigorsky-Roth finds parallels between their own navigation of gender as a trans person and Diana's fraught relationship with celebrity and the monarchy. . . . Idiosyncratic and intimate, this heartfelt tribute doubles as a revealing self-portrait."-Publishers Weekly
"Piatigorsky-Roth spends time exploring specifically how Diana's story, performance of femininity, and ultimate desire to be seen as herself resonate deeply with the queer community. A thoughtful, layered conversation about how deeply we can be affected by people we can never really know."-Booklist, the journal of the American Library Association
"A layered meditation on celebrity, mythology, gender, and how your life can be profoundly shaped by someone you've never even met."-Jillian Tamaki, author of Boundless
"An extraordinary work of comics portraiture, rendered in elegant linework and overflowing with rich intertextual detail. Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth is an essential new cartooning voice. His emerging oeuvre is my new graphic obsession."-Jason Adam Katzenstein, author of Everything is an Emergency
"Mesmerizing, fascinating, and beguiling, this is a book that will draw you in completely. Like Diana herself, this book is a treasure."-Emma Grove, author of The Third Person
"A multifaceted exploration of queer identities through several unexpected and wholly novel lenses, Diana telescopes in scale from the level of heartbreaking detail out to the sweep of history and myth, all the while tethered to the poignant and personal."-Bishakh Som, author of Apsara Engine and Spellbound
"A keenly self-aware and compassionate look at Princess Diana, blending biography and memoir in this deeply personal and fascinating book."-Ashley Robin Franklin, author of That Full Moon Feeling
"A celebration of subversion, this finely rendered graphic novel uncovers fascinating depths at the intersection of gender, expectations, and transgression."-Morgan Boecher, author of What's Normal Anyway
Book Information
ISBN 9781951491222
Author Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Street Noise Books
Publisher Street Noise Books
