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maggiecoyne's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Gorgeous and thoughtful!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness and Xenophobia
bug_lightyear's review
4.5
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A nice collection of sometimes very relatable little strips or pictures. Some things I could have related with going through depression, some relatable as an immigrant although my background is very different.
A nice collection of sometimes very relatable little strips or pictures. Some things I could have related with going through depression, some relatable as an immigrant although my background is very different.
jlinvill1's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
2.5
Cute graphic memoir. The individual pages made sense but there was no overarching story making it semi hard to follow.
jentidders's review against another edition
3.0
Although billed as fiction, this poetic graphic novel feels very much like a journal/memoir. A bisexual Chinese woman living in America recounts how hard it was to come out to her conservative mother, the family pressure to achieve, relationship troubles, depression, racism, misogyny, and more. Despite it apparently being divisive, I really enjoyed the simplistic, cartoony, art style.
melissafelicia's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
I loved this collection of comics! The style was simple but colorful and the subjects were very interesting. The book contained several beautiful insights into the concepts of home and belonging. I really loved some of the quotes. I also realized that I had seen one of the comics on social media before about 10 years ago, the one about saying thank you instead of sorry, and that advice has stuck with me over the past 10 years!
zabcia's review against another edition
3.0
77%
"I was shaken off my feet, and I saw the pieces. How did I get so fragmented? I must pick them up piece by piece and look closely to see myself."
A collection of self-reflective mini-stories. Sometimes it felt a bit contrived, but since we're all humans and share most of our experiences, redundancy is to be expected in such things; there are no original experiences (unless you were Neil Armstrong, in which case that was a pretty original human experience).
"I live an independent life...at the cost of ignoring the baggage I carry"
"When you were a kid did they tell you stories that were full of voids? in the voids you saw questions, dead ends, and more questions...you had to ask, 'what are you hiding?' but every time they answer you, you only see a broken thread, a cloud of smoke, a small piece of their ghost escaping their body. they live with it. you live in the presence of them living with it."
"Once you leave, there is no home anymore. It's just a choice between a place you can't call home and a place to live that is not your own."
"I was shaken off my feet, and I saw the pieces. How did I get so fragmented? I must pick them up piece by piece and look closely to see myself."
"I have a habit of searching for memories in the future."
"I was shaken off my feet, and I saw the pieces. How did I get so fragmented? I must pick them up piece by piece and look closely to see myself."
A collection of self-reflective mini-stories. Sometimes it felt a bit contrived, but since we're all humans and share most of our experiences, redundancy is to be expected in such things; there are no original experiences (unless you were Neil Armstrong, in which case that was a pretty original human experience).
"I live an independent life...at the cost of ignoring the baggage I carry"
"When you were a kid did they tell you stories that were full of voids? in the voids you saw questions, dead ends, and more questions...you had to ask, 'what are you hiding?' but every time they answer you, you only see a broken thread, a cloud of smoke, a small piece of their ghost escaping their body. they live with it. you live in the presence of them living with it."
"Once you leave, there is no home anymore. It's just a choice between a place you can't call home and a place to live that is not your own."
"I was shaken off my feet, and I saw the pieces. How did I get so fragmented? I must pick them up piece by piece and look closely to see myself."
"I have a habit of searching for memories in the future."
risashutz's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
erine's review against another edition
A collection of short comics that focus on the life and experiences and thoughts of the author. Some resonated with me more than others, but in general there was a lot of thoughtful tidbits in here that ranged from the very specific to more universal meditations.