Elle Magazine: FORGET SORROW How to Picture a Life
Date of Review:
May.01.2010
Reviewer:
L.S.
Source:
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Elle May 2010
The graphic memoir Forget Sorrow (Norton), by artist and children’s book author Belle Yang re-creates Yang’s extended family’s dramatic ancestral history through the politcial upheavals of twentieth Century China, while also illuminating personal struggles such as being stalked by an ex-boyfriend and facing tensions with her old-world parents. It’s a healing portrait drawn in epic ink strokes.-- LS
Link to Full Review:
Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale
About Belle
Belle Yang, subject of the PBS documentary, “My Name is Belle,” is often asked whether she is primarily a writer or a painter. Answer: "When I'm writing, I'm a writer; when I'm painting, I'm a painter." Is she a children's author or writers of adult...
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