Tangles is 1) a graphic memoir, 2) was written by a woman, 3) was published in 2012 (just hitting the five year mark), and 4) has only 832 ratings on Goodreads. I chose Tangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me by Sarah Leavitt. I wanted to read and blog about something that doesn’t have more reviews than Heinz Field has seats. While I highly recommend checking out graphic memoirists like Alison Bechdel and Marjane Satrapi, there are, as I type this, over 76,000 reviews of Bechdel’s Fun Home on Goodreads. And I still had a pretty significant stack.ģ) Since I have promised to explore “new and exciting” memoirs, I wanted my choice to have been published within the past five years.Ĥ) I wanted to read something that isn’t too widely known. My research consisted only of pulling every graphic memoir written by a woman from our collection at Beechview and seeing what I connected with. Fortunately, though women are still fairly underrepresented in comics, there are a lot of graphic memoirs by women from which to choose. Not only are they telling their stories, they’re quite literally showing them.Ģ) In honor of Women’s History Month, I wanted to read something by a woman. I think that in utilizing comics as a medium, memoirists provide a unique and immersive reading experience. I even did a staff pick about it in September. Graphic memoir is one of my very favorite genres. In choosing my memoir this month I had a few criteria:ġ) I wanted to read a graphic memoir.
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