From the Bookshelf of Oly Reads…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
There is something about the desperation that comes with wanting to have children (if you want to have children) that makes you blind to other people's life experiences. Like this.
Is this really what straight people think about queer fertility and desire to make a family "unnaturally"? I mean, it's laughable except... I think she's serious? So, I hate you too, Phoebe Potts. I wanted to like this book, but I couldn't. ...more
Is this really what straight people think about queer fertility and desire to make a family "unnaturally"? I mean, it's laughable except... I think she's serious? So, I hate you too, Phoebe Potts. I wanted to like this book, but I couldn't. ...more
Dec 14, 2010
Raina
rated it
liked it
Shelves:
adoption,
graphic-novel-travelogues,
nonfic,
adult,
feminist,
lgbt2q,
religious,
graphicnovel,
realistic,
biographical
There were a lot of things I liked about this book.
The exploration of Potts' journey to her current vocation. Her expressive drawing style. The ending. But I didn't love it, and I felt like a lot of her panels were crowded and/or hard to read (without clear direction about which order to read things). The parts NOT about her fertility struggles were by far the most interesting parts.
I feel like she could have written an entire memoir just about her year (?) in Mexico (which would have fit even ...more
The exploration of Potts' journey to her current vocation. Her expressive drawing style. The ending. But I didn't love it, and I felt like a lot of her panels were crowded and/or hard to read (without clear direction about which order to read things). The parts NOT about her fertility struggles were by far the most interesting parts.
I feel like she could have written an entire memoir just about her year (?) in Mexico (which would have fit even ...more
