Joel Christian Gill – illustratör

Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty anddesperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems byeverything and everyone around him. But fighting doesn't always yield the bestresults for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, morefulfilling life than the one he was born into, as Joel learns in a series ofbrutal conflicts that eventually lead him to question everything he has learnedabout what it truly means to fight for one's life.Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoirof artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age asa Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and forebodingbackwoods.