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Indlæser... My Body in Pieces (2019)af Marie-Noëlle Hébert
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This is a graphic nonfiction memoir of a fat girl, tracing her path to self-acceptance. Her weight doesn’t appear to be due to overeating so much as body type. Growing up, she experiences significant shame in her family. Her parents attempt to help her in ways that are not helpful, presenting her with books on weight loss or questioning her about whether she really wants that second helping. At school, she is often bullied. A brief period on a soccer team and as a member of jogging club leads to some slimming, but inevitably the weight and self-loathing return. Dating, of course, is out of the question. “Let’s just be friends,” says a boy she likes. Ultimately, after moving out of the family home, she meets a friend who doesn’t abandon her and links her up with a therapist. Things begin to improve. I wish I could say I liked this book. The mostly black-and-white art is accomplished enough, but seemingly endless pages about self-loathing don’t make for interesting reading. It is possible that some girls may find solace in this, but I am doubtful. I suspect it was a therapeutic project for the author. Again: I’m not convinced it would be for teenage girl readers who suffer over their own weight. Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for a free advanced reading copy of the book. I regret that I can’t summon up anything more positive to say about the book than that I’m sorry for the author’s psychological pain.. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
"A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman's struggles with self-esteem and body image issues. All Marie-Nolle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn't make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn't call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This all-too-relatable memoir follows Marie-Nolle from childhood to her twenties, as she navigates what it means to be born into a body that doesn't fall within society's beauty standards."-- No library descriptions found. |
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It's lightly hampered by stiff pages that often feel more like a series of portraits rather than sequential art and are awash in dulling gray tones. The story also suffers from some vagueness, especially the arc with the father, whose character role seems unclear at first, whose cruelties are inscrutable, and whose wrap up seems underdeveloped and abrupt.
Despite not working for me, I'm sure this will be easily relatable for others. ( )