{"product_id":"9798875002649","title":"Nirvana is Here","description":"A chance encounter in a flea market parking lot and a severed finger embroil two Vietnamese German siblings — and a vividly drawn cast of eccentric neighbors, a tough teen biker with a crush, a rollerblading girl gang, and many others — on a mission to save a desperate young Vietnamese woman from her pursuer.\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA New York Public Library Best New Comic for Adults 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTwo German siblings, 12-year-old Tâm and 14-year-old Dennis Nguyen, encounter a young Vietnamese woman in trouble in a flea market parking lot. When Tâm’s spy movie-obsessed schoolmate, Alex, discovers an abandoned backpack with a photo of a happy couple with Tâm’s address on the back, it will lead the two to discover a severed finger. Worried, Tâm searches for the desperate woman, aided by her reluctant brother, and eventually finds Hoa Bin, who escaped from her kidnapper — who’s still tracking her down. Drawn to Hoa Bin, Tâm vows to save her — even if she has to break her stern-but-loving mom’s rules, dodge the bad guys in wild chases through the Berlin streets, and combine the forces of Marina, the Nguyens’ tough-chick neighbor, Jutta, an elderly retired actress, a rollerblading girl gang, and many others to do so.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn Ross’s empathetic, loose-but-controlled lines, cartoonishly expressive kids interact against and within the realistically depicted urban environments, given texture and grit by screen-tones. \u003ci\u003eNirvana Is Here\u003c\/i\u003e is a contemporary crime thriller that has adventure, diasporic, coming-of-age, and love story elements, set in Berlin’s working-class Lichtenberg district against a backdrop of very current social issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Ross, Mikael","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback B102","offer_id":50890962174210,"sku":"9798875002649","price":40.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/0012\/8514\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e95d3c6e-4ccc-485d-a2bc-300c966d29bc.jpg?v=1793121528","url":"https:\/\/www.downtowncomics.ca\/products\/9798875002649","provider":"Downtown Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}