And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir (Kimball Margaret)(Paperback)

In the spirit of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Roz Chast's Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a beautifully illustrated black-and-white memoir that empathetically explores a family's history with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and one woman's quest to find healing.
Margaret Kimball's visceral graphic memoir explores the state and stages of a woman's life, including motherhood, marriage, divorce, and mental health. And Now I Spill the Family Secrets begins when she learns of her mother's suicide attempt thirty years earlier, on Mother's Day of 1988 when Margaret was four years old. Desperate to know what drove her mother's desire to end her life, Margaret embarks on an immersive journey into the past, to uncover the secrets her family has kept for decades. Poring over the documentation of her family's
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