<B>"</B><B>In Mahdavian's hands, comics feel like poetry.</B> <B>Perfect ink drawings bring land, beast, and humans, with all their delicacy and yearning, viscerally to life.</B> <B><I>This Country</I>… made me want to grant my own surroundings the grace, humor, and dignity of </B><B>Mahdavian</B><B>'s observant study."</B> <B>—Amy Kurzweil, cartoonist and author of <I>Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir</I></B><BR/><BR/><B>A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a home in the remote American West, by <I>New Yorker</I> cartoonist Navied Mahdavian.</B><BR/><BR/>Before Navied Mahdavian moved with his wife and dog in November of 2016 from San Francisco to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Idaho, he had never fished, gardened, hiked, hunted, or lived in a snowy place. But there, he could own land, realize his dream of being an artist, and start a family—the Millennial dream.&#1