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• Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

  Chast, Roz

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  New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Best We Could Do

  An Illustrated Memoir

  Bui, Thi

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  This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Joy of Quitting

  Roberts, Keiler

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  Keiler Roberts is one of the best autobiographical cartoonists working today. The Joy of Quitting is a work of domestic comedy encompassing 8 years of hilarious moments in the author’s life. It spans her frantic child-rearing, misfires in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Belonging

  a German Reckons With History and Home

  Krug, Nora

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  Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement; though all four…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Talk

  a Memoir in Conversations

  Jacob, Mira, 1973-

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  Mira Jacob’s half-Jewish, half-Indian son, has questions about everything. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she’s gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gender Queer

  a Memoir

  Kobabe, Maia

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  Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Called Us Enemy

  Takei, George, 1937-

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  A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fun Home

  a Family Tragicomic

  Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

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  Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. Her father was the director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• March

  Book One

  Lewis, John, 1940 February 21-

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  March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Displacement

  Knisley, Lucy

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  In this graphic travelogue, Lucy Knisley volunteers to watch over her ailing grandparents on a cruise. She not only tries to connect with her grandparents, but to reconcile their younger and older selves. She is aided in her quest by her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spellbound

  Som, Bishakh

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  This graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, explores the concept of identity by inviting the reader to view the author moving through life as she would have us see her, that is, as she sees herself. Framed with a candid autobiographical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Quiet Girl in a Noisy World

  An Introvert's Story

  Tung, Debbie

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  This book of short comics illuminates author Debbie Tung's experience as an introvert in an extrovert’s world. Presented in a loose narrative style, the book spans three years of Debbie's life, from the end of college to the present day. In these…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Amazing Fantastic Incredible

  a Marvelous Memoir

  Lee, Stan, 1922-

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  In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee—comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes—shares his iconic legacy and the story of how…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Persepolis

  Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-

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  In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the coming-of-age story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands

  Beaton, Kate, 1983-

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  Winner of 2023 Canada Reads. Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush―part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can’t find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters…Read moreRead more of this annotation