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PASSING FOR HUMAN
A Graphic Memoir
Melancholy and funny, personal and surreal, PASSING FOR HUMAN is a profound exploration of identity by one of the most talented young comics artists working today that is part magical odyssey, part feminist creation myth. This is about a young artist struggling against what's expected of her as a woman, and learning to accept her true self. Here, Liana Finck goes in search of that thing she has lost--her shadow, she calls it, that "otherness" which has defined her since birth, that part of her that has always felt as though she is living in exile from the world. Finck is on a quest for self-understanding and self-acceptance--and along the way, she seeks to answer some eternal questions: What makes us whole, what do we try to hide from others, from ourselves?
Finck calls this "a neurological coming-of-age story" - one in which, through childhood, human connection proved elusive, and her most enduring relationships were with inanimate objects and imaginary friends. Her mother was an artist whose own creative life had been stifled by an unhappy marriage and a deeply sexist society that seemed expressly designed to snuff out creativity in women; in which her father was a doctor who also struggled, in secret, with the guilt of having passed his own form of otherness on to his daughter. In the end, as an adult, Finck finally finds her shadow again--and with it, her true self.
Liana Finck is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Awl, and Catapult. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. She has had artist residencies with MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, and Tablet Magazine. Her first book, A Bintel Brief, was published by Ecco Press in 2014. And she was National Book Award finalist. She lives in New York City.
Liana Finck is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Awl, and Catapult. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. She has had artist residencies with MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, and Tablet Magazine. Her first book, A Bintel Brief, was published by Ecco Press in 2014. And she was National Book Award finalist. She lives in New York City.
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Published 2018-09-18 by Random House |
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Published 2018-09-18 by Random House |