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This Bridge Will Not Be Gray

by manz

With story by Dave Eggers and art by Tucker Nichols, This Bridge Will Not Be Gray is a mild history of the building of San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge, offering up facts about the construction of the bridge and the big debate about what color to paint it. Most involved figured the bridge would be gray. Gray was serious. Gray was safe. If that was the case, then how did it end up painted International Orange? This book answers that question in a delightful way.

The book backs the idea that standing up for yourself and your ideas is worth something! Even if the idea is bold and courageous and unusual and even strange.

Published by McSweeney’s it has that bit of wit you know and love, as well as whimsical and colorful paper cut-outs as design. Eggers is known for his books for adults, such as Pulitzer finalist A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and is the founder McSweeney’s and co-founder 826 Valencia (which lead to 826michigan!).

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