Good Eggs : A Memoir

English

ISBN: 0061711462

EAN: 9780061711466

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Women/Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction/

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 09/16/2011

Synopsis: In the tradition of the acclaimed graphic memoirs Fun Home and Persepolis comes a funny, insightful, and deeply moving book about learning to appreciate what we have when we cant seem to get what we want.For Phoebe Potts, the path to maternal fulfillment has not been easy. All her friends seem to get pregnant, but she cant conceive for all her trying. As Phoebe and her husband, Jeff, navigate the emotionally and physically fraught world of fertility experts, she takes stock of what matters in the rest of her life and reflects on the winding journey to her true calling as an artist. From her days as an amateur union organizer in Texas to her spiral into paralyzing depression in Mexico; from her soul-shrinking, all-for-the-benefits stint as an administrative assistant at a fancy university in Cambridge to her flirtation with rabbinical school, Phoebe illuminates the bumpy road to vocational and personal contentment. Her wonderful, hilarious, and utterly original drawings capture the truly good eggs-an unforgettably nutty mother; a devoted husband; a team of therapists, hairdressers, and landladies; friends; and a sidekick housecat-that together expand the definition of what really makes a family.

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Good Eggs : A Memoir

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.85 inches

Width: 6.25 inches

Length: 9.31 inches

Weight: 22.43 oz

Pages: 256