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Book

The mother : a graphic memoir

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL 921 D4862 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Madeira Park, BC : Douglas and McIntyre, [2025]

Physical Description

172 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary

"A raw and honest, harrowing and humorous journey into the dualities of modern motherhood in graphic memoir form. New Yorker cartoonist Rachel Deutsch desperately wanted a baby, yet she was fearful of actually being pregnant and having one. She lurched into a new identity and then missed her old one. She loved her new baby fiercely, but yearned for her previous relationship with her partner, as sleepless nights revealed the cracks below the surface of their relationship. Funny, provocative, visually striking and unabashedly candid, The Mother offers empathy and laughs to new and seasoned parents, encouraging readers to embrace the unexpected depths of feeling, wildness, weirdness and love that comes with the territory."--

Contents

  • I need a baby
  • The unbearable heaviness of being with child
  • It's time
  • New life
  • A long night's journey into day
  • I change.

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