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Spring Rain: A Graphic Memoir of Love, Madness, and Revolutions by Andy Warner
3.0
This is one of the most cohesive graphic memoirs I’ve read but it’s still messy. I appreciate that Warner acknowledges in the text both at the start and end that this kind of story is inherently navel gazing and therefore subjective and flawed. I also appreciated the dedication that acknowledges some of Beirut’s story isn’t his, an an outsider, to tell.
Good artwork and really tightly plotted. I 100% see this being from Warner’s own experience but I also wish there had been more about mental illness—like some kind of note with resources. Because that was essentially dropped as the story moved in other directions which while probably true to Warner's experience feels like a disservice to readers.
Supplemental materials included a map of Lebanon and a political timeline. Not a me book and I’m not sure who I’d recommend it too. Interesting backdrop but I didn’t know much about Lebanon/Syria before reading this and don’t feel particularly more informed after because so much of that became window dressing for an intensely personal story.
Good artwork and really tightly plotted. I 100% see this being from Warner’s own experience but I also wish there had been more about mental illness—like some kind of note with resources. Because that was essentially dropped as the story moved in other directions which while probably true to Warner's experience feels like a disservice to readers.
Supplemental materials included a map of Lebanon and a political timeline. Not a me book and I’m not sure who I’d recommend it too. Interesting backdrop but I didn’t know much about Lebanon/Syria before reading this and don’t feel particularly more informed after because so much of that became window dressing for an intensely personal story.