"Emil Wilson's The Nightingales is a book awash with tenderness, with the audacity and courage to make a room for kindness, with art that performs on each and every page the beautiful and most humane acts of remembering--particular, impressionistic, incomplete, eidetic, afire with humor and compassion. Here is an extraordinary achievement that takes history and offers it to the future as the most forgiving gift." --Mark Z. Danielewski, New York Times bestselling author of House of Leaves "Gorgeously illustrated and emotionally piercing, this coming-of-age story set at the height of the AIDs epidemic shows how impactful one friendship can be on the direction of a life. Nuanced, empathetic, and impossible to set down. Highly recommended!" --Maia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer: A Memoir "Told with the utmost care, Emil Wilson's The Nightingales is exactly the kind of scathing, compassionate, and tragic family portrait that I love the most. I've urgently and insistently recommended this to every friend and loved one, so that I might have some company in laughing and crying and savouring this beautifully drawn story." --Lee Lai, author of Cannon "Deely moving.

I was overwhelmed with emotion on every page of this gorgeous graphic work. Emil Wilson manages to convey the quirky joys as well as the horrors of the 1980s--highlighting the relentless nightmare of the early days of AIDS--while also speaking to issues that couldn't be more current. Here is a book that richly deserves a place alongside coming-of-age classics like Running with Scissors and Fun Home ." --Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club.