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Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir
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ISBN10: 0525508945
ISBN13: 9780525508946
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: Jul 22 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780525508946
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: Jul 22 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.10
Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - A visually arresting graphic memoir about a young artist struggling against what's expected of her as a woman, and learning to accept her true self, from an acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Guardian, New York, Refinery29, Kirkus Reviews In this stunning graphic memoir, Liana Finck goes in search of a thing she has lost--her shadow, as she calls the strangeness that has defined her since birth, the part of her that has always made her feel as though she is living in exile from the world. In Passing for Human, Finck is on a quest for self-understanding and self-acceptance, and along the way she seeks to answer some eternal questions: What makes us whole? What parts of ourselves do we hide, ignore, or chase away because they're embarrassing, or inconvenient, or just plain weird--and at what cost? Passing for Human is what Finck calls a neurological coming-of-age story--one in which human connection proved elusive and her most enduring relationships throughout childhood were with plants and rocks and imaginary friends; in which her mother's creative life had been snuffed out by an unhappy first marriage and a deeply sexist society; in which her father, a doctor, secretly struggled with the guilt of having passed his own form of otherness on to his daughter; and in which, as an adult, Finck finally finds her shadow again--and, with it, her true self. Part magical odyssey, part feminist creation myth, Passing for Human is an extraordinary, moving meditation on what it means to be an artist and a woman grappling with the desire to pass for human.
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