This woman’s work, a review
This woman’s work BY JULIE DELPORTE Drawn & Quarterly, 2019 A graphic memoir I loved this small compressed book full of watercolors/washes. They are like small postcards mailed to the self. This book is perfect for the Millennial feminist in your life—what! You don’t know any—then get some. The protagonist (Julie?) is in the midst of a research project, exploring the work and life f Tove Jansson—and from there it spirals. Questions about relationships, the choice to have a child, or not. Who she is in relation to her father, lovers, film, literature, memories. She deals with abuse and the interior threat of self-denial. More than anything else it is a record, a journal of daily thoughts, doubts, questions that wash over her as she holds conversations with the life of Tove Jansson. Because I’m working currently on a non-fiction hybrid project involving a historical figure I am interested in how Delporte handled the material and wove in her own insights t...