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Passing For Human

Passing For Human

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NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS CHOICEA visually arresting graphic memoir about a young artist struggling against whats expected of her as a woman, and learning to accept her true self, from an acclaimed New Yorker cartoonistA 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 losther 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 theyre embarrassing, or inconvenient, or just plain weirdand at what cost?Passing for Human is what Finck calls a neurological coming-of-age storyone in which human connection proved elusive and her most enduring relationships throughout childhood were with plants and rocks and imaginary friends; in which her mothers 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 againand, 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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