Julio's Day [Hardcover]

It begins in the year 1900, with the scream of a newborn. It ends, 100 pages later, in the year 2000, with the death rattle of a 100-year-old man. The infant and the old man are both Julio, and Gilbert HernandezsGilbert Hernandez traces the life of a 100-year-old man fromcradle to grave in this fictional graphic novel. A haunting performance and about as perfect a literary work as Ive read in years. Hernandez accomplishes in 100 pages what most novelists only dream ofrendering the closeted phlegmatic Julio in all his confounding complexity and in the process creating an unflinching biography of a community, a country and a century. A masterpiece.