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By Bobbie · 3 posts · 113 views
By Bobbie · 3 posts · 113 views
last updated Apr 17, 2015 06:23AM
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Alison Bechdel's wrenching memoir landed in our house yesterday and has already been devoured both by me and my daughter. We both found it compelling and haunting and impossible to put down. The combination of artwork and text is simultaneously literary and emotional, raw and erudite. With astonishing candor and honesty about the limits of her interpretation, Bechdel explores her family's masquerade. An illusory life riddled by lacunae required to shield them from the explosive effects of disclo
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Honestly, I don't know what I think about this. The art was fantastic, in my opinion, and I really enjoyed it. That, probably more than anything else from this book, is likely to stick with me the longest. The rest of it...well, it always feels very strange to me to stick a star rating on someone's life. So, with memoirs and the like, I tend to ask myself if I enjoyed learning more about the person, if I would recommend the book, etc.
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Bhargavi Balachandran
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