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therainbowshelf's review
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
4.0
After years of this being on my TBR, my husband discovered it and really connected with it. Bechdel is even more analytical with this book than the one about her dad, bringing in psychology scholarship to examine her life and relationship with mom. In one panel her therapist suggests her childhood diary was a way to distance herself from what was going on, and I felt like that summarized her style with this book as well.
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment
Minor: Suicide and Car accident
Nudity, negative relationship with parentloverofeels's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
4.25
a lot of the psychology stuff went way over my head, but on the whole a very well-crafted, unflinchingly personal memoir. alison bechdel simply does not miss! i recommend this to people who like their graphic novels wordy and dense
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Toxic relationship
Minor: Suicide and Death of parent
aardwyrm's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Dense, meandering, and full of references to philosophy and psychology, none of which are strikes against but which give this book a very different tone than Fun Home. Most of the allusions happened to click for me, but it might be hard to follow if you weren't a kid who grew up on Dr Seuss's Sleep Book and had just been reading Virginia Woolf.
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Vomit, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia
garynoplastie's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicide, and Lesbophobia
Minor: Homophobia
alyx's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
4.75
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Grief, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia
Minor: Suicide
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