The Bench Fixer of Division Street
A Graphic Novel

About this book:

Alma Cruz fixes the benches that hold a city together—one splintered slat, one rusted bolt at a time. But when a broken piece of white oak reveals initials carved decades deep beneath the varnish, her quiet maintenance route becomes an investigation into the hidden histories etched into Division Street's public furniture. From the bus stop at 4th to the last bench on the line, every repair uncovers another layer: a maintenance log that doesn't match the work, ghost markings visible only in rain, a stranger who knows the grain better than she does.

In this atmospheric graphic novel, the rhythm of wrench and mallet becomes a detective's pulse. Wood never lies, but cities bury their truths in plain sight—underneath the paint, beneath the grime, in the grain that remembers every hand that shaped it. As Alma traces the pattern from vandalism to something far older and more deliberate, she'll learn that restoring a bench might mean restoring the stories the city tried to sand away.