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This is the first memoir/personal story I think I've read, and that I genuinely love.
Struggling with mental health and being stuck in a bad headspace is very real and the way this is constructed and carried out is beautiful.
The art is very telling within the story as well, you can see (and feel) the emotion within the art and highlights.

Overall, I just loved reading this.

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

When I was 25, I went to Barnes and Noble and nervously flipped through pages of this book, looking over my shoulder. I thought if someone saw me reading this book, with the naked lady on the cover, they’d think I was a lesbian. Turns out I am!

Now at age 32, I bought this book at another Barnes and Noble and happily handed it to the cashier without a second thought. How wonderful.

This book is so raw about the worst and lowest point of the author’s life. I can’t believe how blunt she is about her own past actions that range from embarrassing to troubling. It’s concise, a small book that is so loud, each panel shouts and screams at the reader. (In a good way!)

Deeply insightful about intimacy and vulnerability, and how sex is much more those things than it is the physical act of humans touching each other’s bodies. Honestly much less “lesbian” than I thought in a way. I think by the end of the book, the author can’t even admit to herself yet that she IS a lesbian. It’s not clear.

I like that it’s not tied up with a neat “Queer American YA” type ribbon—I love myself, cue the pride flags. It captures the messy, choked-up middle of that journey and leaves us on a cliffhanger, hoping the best for the author in the future. I’m still thinking of her, hoping she’s like me now, happily handing lesbian books to bookstore cashiers.

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dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.0

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5.0

an extremely raw, honest and vulnerable autobiographical manga about the author's lifelong struggles with mental illness, self-harm, and eating disorders. throughout the manga she reflects on her troubled relationship with her family’s expectations, the pressure of sociocultural norms to conform, and her own troubles understanding her gender and sexuality. the story is focused on her inner emotional world as she self reflects and psychoanalyses herself, with the pivotal story beat centered on her having her first sexual experience at age 28 with a hired lesbian escort, while she traces the events that got her into this situation. seeing the mental and physical pits she falls into is painful but watching her slowly learn to care for herself and try to take back the reins in her life is beautiful. in short, it’s a 28 yr old lesbian's coming of age story. more than anything, i am rooting for the author ❤️

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emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

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emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

4.0

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