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pdestrienne's review
funny
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Having read other collections of Keiler Roberts, I was looking forward to more deadpan depictions of her life as a comics writer/artist and as part of a family. I appreciate the brusqueness that she brings to observing and reacting to life. This is a collection of comics focused on when she was pregnant and right after giving birth, and I thought that seeing such an honest navigation of weird post-partum feelings and depression was great. I also was sad to see the ingrained fatphobia that popped up many times, and it's not like it was pointed or even consciously intended, rather that Roberts equates fatness with badness as a given, and that makes me feel tired. It's like when you hear a friend make a disparaging remark about someone just because of their body and suddenly you know exactly how they see you.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia and Mental illness
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