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Graphic Novels November 2019
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Are You My Mother?
by Alison Bechdel
A graphic novel follow-up to Fun Home depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter. Reprint. (This book was featured in a previous issue of Forecast.)
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Embroideries
by Marjane Satrapi
A collection of stories and anecdotes, told in the form of a graphic novel, reveals the love and sex lives of a group of women as revealed during an afternoon of conversation and tea-drinking in which the author's grandmother, mother, eccentric aunt, and friends share their thoughts on sex, love, and the peculiarities of Iranian men.
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Ethel & Ernest : A True Story
by Raymond Briggs
Beautifully rendered full-color drawings and a candid, evocative text capture the entertaining and poignant story of the author's parents, from their first encounter in 1928 London, through their marriage and the rapidly shifting modern world, to their final days.
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Louis Undercover
by Fanny Britt
Shuffling back and forth between his alcoholic father and worried mother, young Louis finds companionship with his sensitive younger brother and a best friend who supports him while he musters the courage to speak to a crush. By the award-winning creators of Jane, the Fox and Me.
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The Shadow Hero
by Gene Luen Yang
In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity: the Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero. The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang has revived this character in Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel that creates an origin story for the Green Turtle.
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Smile : Sisters
by Raina Telgemeier
Two semi-autobiographical graphic novels recount Riana's struggles with corrective dental techniques and her disappointing bond with her cranky younger sister following the arrival of a baby brother.
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Sunny Side Up
by Jennifer L Holm
Sunny Lewin is sent to live with her grandfather for the summer in Florida, where she befriends Buzz, a boy completely obsessed with comic books, and faces the secret behind why she is in Florida in the first place.
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The Umbrella Academy : Dallas
by Gerard Way
Following the near apocalypse created by one of their own and the death of their beloved mentor Pogo, the team is despondent, but when it's time for another catastrophic event to rouse the team into action, each member of the team is distracted by some very real problems of their own.
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