This powerful graphic journal recalls "a year that actually began three years ago." The words and pictures are snapshots of life-bright flashes of moments remembered. Beautifully written and illustrated, this edition is a masterpiece of feeling, color, and word that will transport the reader into a better place.

The Three Sailors chronicles the fictionalized retelling of one of the most arduous passages in history. After a massive storm in 1832, three men are stranded at sea on their broken ship for over four hundred days and hope for just two things-to survive their ordeal and to find safe passage home to Japan. Left in the middle of the sea with not much else to eat but rice, teenage boys Oto and Kyu, and their older, spiritually strong helmsman, Iwa, are tossed from one ordeal to the next. As they travel from Japan to Vancouver to "Slave Island" and Macao, the three Japanese sailors battle not...