I'm supposed to protect you from all this : a memoir / by Nadja Spiegelman.
Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2016.Description: 372 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781925355864
- I am supposed to protect you from all this
- Spiegelman, Nadja
- Women artists -- Family relationships -- New York (State) -- New York
- Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
- Women artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Family relationships
- Women artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Family relationships
- Mothers and daughters -- Biography
- 741.56973 23
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A memoir of mothers and daughters, traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. More than Nadja Spiegelman?s famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and more than most mothers, hers French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja?s body changed and ?began to whisper to the adults around me in a language I did not understand?, their relationship grew tense. Unwittingly, they were replaying a drama from her mother?s past. The weight of the difficult stories Françoise told her daughter shifted the balance between them. Nadja?s grandmother?s memories then contradicted her mother?s at nearly every turn, but beneath them lay a difficult history of her own. Nadja emerged with a deeper understanding of how each generation reshapes the past and how sometimes those who love us best hurt us most. Readers will recognise themselves and their families in this moving, heartbreaking memoir.