Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir
When Nicole Georges was two years old, her family told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin...
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When Nicole Georges was two years old, her family told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin about her identity, Nicole turns to radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger for advice. Packed cover-to-cover with heartfelt and disarming black-and-white illustrations, Calling Dr. Laura tells the story of what happens to you when you are raised in a family of secrets, and what happens to your brain (and heart) when you learn the truth from an unlikely source. Part coming-of-age and part coming-out story, Calling Dr. Laura marks the arrival of an exciting and winning new voice in graphic literature.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780547615592 (0547615590)
ASIN: 0547615590
Publish date: 2013-01-22
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Adult,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Glbt,
Queer
I feel sad and kind of guilty that I didn't like this graphic memoir as much as I expected to. Sad because, well, duh – it's disappointing to be disappointed, and this sounded so promising. Guilty because Nicole Georges definitely had a story to tell, and I feel as if I caught maybe half of it.Partl...
I can't really explain why I liked this book so much, so I'll just mention some things I liked in particular. I like how Georges distinguishes between her childhood and adulthood with more cartoon-y drawings for the former and more realistic ones for the latter. I liked the author's kind of non-judg...