Ebook {Epub PDF} Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir by Liana Finck

 · Part magical odyssey, part feminist creation myth, this memoir is, most of all, an extraordinary, moving meditation on what it means to be an artist and a woman grappling with the desire to pass for human. Praise for Passing for Human “In its ambition, framing, and multiple layers, [Passing for Human] raises the bar for graphic narrative. Even fans of [Liana Finck’s] work in the New Yorker . "Passing for Human is what Finck calls 'a neurological coming-of-age story,' one in which, through her childhood, human connection proved elusive and her most enduring relationships were with plants and rocks and imaginary friends; in which her mother was an artist whose creative life had been stifled by an unhappy first marriage and a deeply sexist society that seemed expressly designed to snuff out /5(7). Passing for Human is what Finck calls "a neurological coming-of-age story"—one in which, through her childhood, human connection proved elusive and her most enduring relationships were with plants and rocks and imaginary friends; in which her mother was an artist whose creative life had been stifled by an unhappy first marriage and a deeply sexist society that seemed expressly designed to snuff out .

In Passing for Human, Liana Finck Illustrates Her Search for Selfhood The New Yorker cartoonist calls her new graphic memoir "a neurological coming-of-age story." by Rebecca McCarthy September In a New Graphic Memoir, Liana Finck Traces Her Own Origin Story. By Julia Felsenthal. Septem That journey is also the focus of her new book Passing for Human, officially a graphic. Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir Liana Finck. Random House, $28 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self.

“Passing for Human” is a graphic work — Finck’s second, after her earlier “A Bintel Brief.” It is drawn in a straightforward pen-and-ink style but each simple drawing captures such raw. "Passing for Human is what Finck calls 'a neurological coming-of-age story,' one in which, through her childhood, human connection proved elusive and her most enduring relationships were with plants and rocks and imaginary friends; in which her mother was an artist whose creative life had been stifled by an unhappy first marriage and a deeply sexist society that seemed expressly designed to snuff out creativity in women; in which her father was a doctor who struggled in secret with the guilt. (PDF FREE) [Passing for Human] ´ Liana Finck È A visually arresting graphic memoir about a young artist struggling against what’s expected.