Super Short Summary

Originally written in French, Hervé Bouchard’s 2010 graphic novel Harvey won Canada’s Governor General's Literary Award and was translated into English the following year. Illustrated by Janice Nadeau and intended – with some debate – for a middle-grade audience, the novel is about grief and mourning as experienced by a pre-adolescent child. The story is quiet and sad, revolving around the way the protagonist experiences the loss of his father and how that loss merges with the boy’s favorite science fiction movie. The book opens with images of small-town Canada in the mid-twentieth century, capturing a melancholic spring when the protagonist becomes "invisible" following his father's death.