Karen De la Vega

Four years after moving from Italy to the crowded North End neighborhood of Boston, Carmen and her Papa have built a good life together. But a massive, ugly metal tank towers over their streets, and it is filled with sticky brown molasses. The tank has always leaked, but nobody ever imagined the true danger it posed. Suddenly, the tank explodes, unleashing a towering tsunami of molasses that crashes through the city. Caught in the path of the sticky, destructive wave, Carmen must fight to survive the flood and protect the life she and her father have worked so hard to create. This intense graphic novel adaptation brings one of the strangest disasters in American history to vivid life. With high-action storytelling and historical facts, readers will be on the edge of their seats as Carmen searches for the strength to endure a truly unbelievable catastrophe.