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Save It for Later: Promises, Protest, and Parenthood Hardcover – April 6, 2021

by Nate Powell (Author, Illustrator)
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From Nate Powell, the National Book Award–winning artist of March, a collection of graphic nonfiction essays about living in a new era of necessary protest.

In seven interwoven comics essays, author and graphic novelist Nate Powell addresses living in an era of what he calls “necessary protest.” Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest is Powell’s reflection on witnessing the collapse of discourse in real time while drawing the award-winning March trilogy, written by Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, this generation’s preeminent historical account of nonviolent revolution in the civil rights movement. Powell highlights both the danger of normalized paramilitary presence symbols in consumer pop culture, and the roles we play individually as we interact with our communities, families, and society at large.

Each essay tracks Powell’s journey from the night of the 2016 presidential election—promising his four-year-old daughter that Trump will never win, to the reality of the authoritarian presidency, protesting the administration’s policies, and navigating the complications of teaching his children how to raise their own voices in a world that is becoming increasingly dangerous and more and more polarized. While six of the seven essays are original to his collection, Powell has also included “About Face,” a comics essay first published by Popula Online that swiftly went viral and inspired him to expand his work on Save It for Later. The seventh and final essay contextualizes the myriad events of 2020 with the previous four years—from the COVID-19 pandemic to global protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder to the 2020 presidential election itself—highlighting both the consistencies and inversions of widely shared experiences and observations amidst a massive social upheaval.

As Powell moves between subjective and objective experiences raising his children—depicted in their childhood innocence as imaginary anthropomorphic animals—he reveals the electrifying sense of trust and connection with neighbors and strangers in protest. He also explores how to equip young people with tools to best make their own noise as they grow up and help shape the direction and future of this country.
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  3. Language
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  4. Publisher
    Harry N. Abrams
  5. Publication date
    April 6, 2021
  6. Grade level
    9 and up
  7. Reading age
    14 years and up
  8. Dimensions
    6.95 x 1 x 10.1 inches
  9. ISBN-10
    1419749129
  10. ISBN-13
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“While many graphic biographies and historical memoirs can feel inert, his dynamic line and talent for using the grammar of comics to shape drama and emotion, as well as action, are a standout… an absorbing reflection on intergenerational inheritance.”

―The New York Times

“This sincere volume carries off parenting inspiration with gravitas.”―Publishers Weekly STARRED Review

“...much of this work feels like visual poetry…A virtuoso work of artistry with important content that might alienate some but powerfully stir others.”―Booklist STARRED Review

“[Powell] asks readers not to forget, not to look away, but to remember what we can achieve when we come together. Save it for Later argues for solidarity in family, community, and across the nation now and for the future.”

―PopMatters

“Save It For Later explores the space where political life intersects with the personal.”―The Beat

“Save it for Later confronts this political era.”―The Arkansas Times Magazine

“This is a gorgeously drawn, well articulated and powerful new work that you should all go read as soon as you can.”―Comic Book Resources

“Urgent and grittily rendered…”

―The Minneapolis Star-Tribune

About the Author

Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist whose work includes civil rights icon John Lewis’s historic March trilogy, Come Again, Two Dead, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole, and The Silence of Our Friends. Powell has also received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, three Eisner Awards, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, two Ignatz Awards, and the Walter Dean Myers Award. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, PBS, CNN, and Free Speech TV. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harry N. Abrams (April 6, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1419749129
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1419749124
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 9 and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.95 x 1 x 10.1 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing comics as an Arkansas teenager in 1992.

His work includes the new graphic novel FALL THROUGH and a comics adaptation of James Loewen’s LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME, as well as SAVE IT FOR LATER, civil rights icon John Lewis' MARCH trilogy and its follow-up RUN, viral comics essay "About Face", and graphic novels COME AGAIN, TWO DEAD, ANY EMPIRE, and SWALLOW ME WHOLE. He has published nonfiction comics and writing for The Washington Post, The Nib, Popula, Booklist, CNN, and The Weather Channel.

Powell’s work has also received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, multiple Eisner and Ignatz Awards, ALA and YALSA distinctions, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, and the CXC Transformative Work Award. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, CNN, NPR, PBS, and Free Speech TV.

He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2021
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This is the first comic book I've ever purchased. I ordered it yesterday; it came today, and I read it in an hour.

I want to begin by saying I am not the precise audience for this book. Mr. Powell is White, hails from midwestern college town, and is writing to other liberal White Americans (and particularly parents) like himself. Whereas I am Black, born and raised in (fairly conservative, actually) churches in South and Northeast, and I have no children. Politically we probably align more than we differ, but I mention this because our experiences (of life, and the last four years) are quite different. Powell is right when he says that someone like me has never had the luxury of believing that a stranger with a Confederate flag means anything but harm. Simultaneously, I have never had to count the cost of displaying a "Black Lives Matter" message - because I effectively wear it on my skin. I know what 2016-2020 meant for me, but it was useful to read what it meant for someone like Powell.

For Powell, 2016 shatters an illusion and sets loose string of horrors: a religious travel ban, refugee children in concentration camps, so-called "patriot" militiamen who fantasize about killing their countrymen, and an Administration whose incompetence and malice kills half-a-million people. Some of these essays read like exploration of the author's conscience in light of these events. How did we get here? What does the moment require of him, as a person of relative privilege, as a parent, and as a mentee and friend of the late John Lewis?

By his own admission, this book is not a parenting guide. But it is absolutely a book about parenting in a time of crisis - by which I mean, setting an example for the young. Conversations with his children feature prominently in the book (and as an aside, his children are drawn as anthropomorphized puppy-children, presumably to protect their right to their own images), and these exchanges are where the book shines.

I have wondered what media will be created by artists of the Trump era, as we try to remember how close we came (and how close we remain) to the brink. Nate Powell gives us an artifact - and it's a fine one at that. I am inspired to familiarize myself with his other work (the March trilogy, for instance), and if he ever comes to my town I'll have him sign my copy. Five stars.
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Sandra Mizumoto Posey
5.0 out of 5 stars Hope in a time of Despair
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2022
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Nate Powell’s Save it for Later is an appeal to the reader to do exactly the opposite. Beginning on the devastating night of Trump’s election and following the protagonist, a politically aware and concerned parent, from that moment through the ensuing events and the COVID crisis, Powell's drawings that are both personal and infused with a sense of urgency through energy-laden and painterly ink work. Color is used sparingly to set mood and somehow give the images the feeling of time passing us by, old photographs, and the haziness of memory. The volume dips into moments of despair and worry while managing to leave the reader with a sense of hope — if, as exhorted to do, we have the courage to take action even when no one else seems to be.
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Scott Rowland
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, Moving, and needed.
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2021
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I purchased this because it was written and drawn by Nate Powell, the artist of the late Representative John Lewis' graphic memoir MARCH. This tells a different story, Powell's own in the wake of the 2016 election, and what he saw happening around him. A different story, but still one that needed to be shared. The first chapter/essay moved me to tears. The final words fill me with hope: "A choice in every moment. So make it."
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Tony Rehrmann
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read for every generation
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2021
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Nate really lays out what I've been feeling as a Gen X dad: excitement, exhaustion, fear, hopelessness, pride, and contemplation. The world our children are living in is not the world we wanted for them, but for them, it is their world and it's our job to help them make sense of it. We can't rest even if we're tired. It's time to pass the passion for righteousness to the next generation.
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Sam and Meagan
5.0 out of 5 stars Understand what's happened to America's soul.
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2021
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This book is a beautifully-written dive into the downfall of America's soul from strength and decency to using fear to divide and calling the loudest voice in the room the wisest.
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Adam Shields
4.0 out of 5 stars As a Gen X stay at home, activist-leaning parent, I was impacted more than I thought I would be
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2021
Summary: A memoir of parenting and activism over the past five years.

Nate Powell is best known as the March Trilogy artist, a collaboration with John Lewis to tell the story of his early years as a Civil Rights Activist through the end of his days at SNCC. A new series telling John Lewis' story after his days at SNCC will start coming out in August.

Graphically, he tends toward black and white with occasional splashes of color for effect. In many ways, he has become one of the best-known artists in the country—the first to win a National Book Award and the winner of many other awards. There are a ton of good articles on Powell. He has also talked many times about the near impossibility of making a living as an artist. Even one that is as well known as he.

Save it for Later is a memoir. I preordered as soon as I heard about it, and like many books that I buy because of the author, I intentionally did not read much about it before I read it. I was unprepared for how much of the book was about navigating parenting as an activist. And it was that part that really spoke to me as a reader.

I am somewhat of an activist myself. Part of what motivates me is that I cannot parent as I want to if I do not deal with my own issues first. I am an activist in part because I want my kids to be activists. I want my kids to work for change in the world and see their responsibility to work for change for the sake of others. I took my kids, 3 and 4 at the time, to the 50th Anniversary march remembering MLK's funeral. They came with us to several marches and prayer services in response to Floyd, Aubry, and Taylor's deaths last year. I discussed with my daughter the death of Daunte Wright and the protests going on this morning.

Powell is five years younger than I am, but his kids are slightly older. He is a stay-at-home father as well. In this memoir, he draws his kids with animal heads in a brilliant move of protective reality. He communicates the difficulty of informing his kids of the world's problems because he thinks it is important and struggling with how much to tell them at what age. There is a point where he recounts a conversation between himself and his daughter about the police. He wants her to know that policing is corrupted and racially discriminatory, but he does not want her to fear the police.

When my daughter heard the NPR reports of arrests at protests in Minnesota yesterday, she asked why people are arrested. 'Did they do something bad?' I reminded her that protests were a response to injustice. And sometimes, we have to be willing to be arrested to opposed injustice. And she knows enough civil rights history and enough about the problem of police brutality to connect protests to justice movements immediately. But that does not make these discussions easier.

The opening of the book was about the election of Trump. It was apocalyptic in tone and as I glanced through reviews on Goodreads, many of the negative or mixed reviews were complaining about politics or about 'preaching to the choir.' This morning I listened to an NPR report about YouTube and its role in the rise of disinformation and misinformation and how that has helped fuel conspiracy theory-based family and other relational breakdowns. I know some will view Powell's opposition to Trump and his commitment to civil rights as a type of conspiracy theory. The rise of Trump has mattered to the increasing problems in communicating across political lines. It is not that Trump has caused the problem, but that he has exposed and widened the problems of race and the inability to work across political lines. The world's tribalism is becoming worse, but the way to deal with tribalism isn't to reject commitments to justice but to build relational networks.

Powell does not have a lot of hope in Save It for Later. He is grappling with frustration and depression and the world going in a way he does not want. But in some ways, grappling with parenting is always an expression of hope. Caring for children and parenting them to be adults that will work for justice requires a level of hope, even if it is not at the top of mind. He also is self-reflective enough to know that while he can respect his parents and their growth, he knows that his own children will be frustrated with him for his own lack of growth in the future. It is the nature of things.

One of the reviews on Goodreads said that in some ways, Powell is 'preaching to the choir,' but the choir isn't only there to sing; they are also there to be in solidarity with one another and to hear the sermon. And while Powell can be a bit didactic at times, his passion carries through, and I find it honest and inspiring. I was surprised at how much I connected with Save it for Later. I instantly thought of several people I want to pass my copy onto. I don't think you need to be an activist Gen X parent to appreciate Save it for Later, but I think that is who will most identify with it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perspectives and ways to talk to your children about current events
Reviewed in Canada on March 1, 2022
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