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Book

I am only a foreigner because you do not understand

Author

L Nichols

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL 921 N619 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Cooperstown, NY : Secret Acres, [2023]

Physical Description

147 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

"I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand continues Flocks, L. Nichols's graphic memoir of growing up trans in the rural South. These comics document L.'s further transition, from living as a man to walking the middle path, facing depression, disease, divorce and death. Healing leaves scars, things fall apart, and pronouns change until there is no I, there is only us"--

Contents

  • Fremdsprache
  • COVID
  • Skin
  • Congenital
  • A feast
  • Complicated
  • Reflections
  • New growth
  • Bad egg
  • Sacred
  • Swallowed
  • Hollow
  • Crushing
  • Blind spot
  • No regrets
  • Falling
  • The pit
  • Fragmented
  • Spiral
  • Gnarled
  • Iteration
  • Begründung
  • Unconditional
  • Apart/a fart
  • Covered
  • Burden
  • Tangled
  • Neither/nor.

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