<B>Author-illustrator Peter Kuper’s Eisner Award-winning graphic novel <I>Ruins</I> is a story of love, adventure, and politics—and two lives changed forever by Mexico and the monarch butterfly.</B><BR/> <BR/><B>“Kuper’s art is, page after page, astonishing.” —Jules Feiffer</B><BR/> <BR/> Samantha and George are about to launch into a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, their journey to this historic town is about fulfilling a lifelong dream; for George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown. As the couple embark on their adventure, a monarch butterfly begins its arduous migration south from the United States to Mexico . . . It is a challenging journey—a flight that requires remarkable endurance and a will to survive.<BR/> <BR/> Beneath Oaxaca’s picturesque and serene veneer—the 16th-century architecture, the nearby ruins—it is a town shaken to the core by political unre