6th paperback printing coming fall 2024 …

Crushed is a comic book and biomythography (a literary form coined and mastered by Audre Lorde). This is the first part of the graphic memoir of cartoonist and poet Trinidad Escobar.

Follow her character Nicole, an undiagnosed Autistic adoptee and book lover, as she journeys to the Philippines, reuniting with her first family over glasses of brandy after years of being apart due to colonization and imperialism.

By way of tales of aswang and giants, dwende and sirena, Nicole learns about a new perception of neurodivergence, spirituality, and trauma. Ultimately she uses indigenous talkstory— the antithesis of colonial silence— to mend her fractured Self.