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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir

I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir

Spiegelman, Nadja

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLiterary Figures

ISBN10: 0399573070
ISBN13: 9780399573071
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Aug 1 2017
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

A Vogue Best Book of the Year

What Ferrante did for female friends--exploring the tumult and complexity their relationships could hold--Spiegelman sets out to do for mothers and daughters. She's essentially written My Brilliant Mom. --Slate

A memoir of mothers and daughters--and mothers as daughters--traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again.

For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers--French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly--exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja's body changed and began to whisper to the adults around me in a language I did not understand, their relationship grew tense. Unwittingly, they were replaying a drama from her mother's past, a drama Nadja sensed but had never been told. Then, after college, her mother suddenly opened up to her. Françoise recounted her turbulent adolescence caught between a volatile mother and a playboy father, one of the first plastic surgeons in France. The weight of the difficult stories she told her daughter shifted the balance between them.

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