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A review by just_fighting_censorship
Getting Married and Other Mistakes by Barbara Slate
3.0
Enjoyable. This adult graphic novel's format really falls some where between comic strip and really long picture book. The story is about a woman who finds herself lost and depressed when her husband of 7 years leaves her. However her emotional distress does not stem from her cheating husband's absence, she doesn't miss him. Instead, she finds that she doesn't know why she married him in the first place.
It is a journey of self-discovery, the reader is taken to various moment's in the protagonist's life and meets an assortment of influential characters, most notably her overbearing shallow mother.
There is plenty of humor and while the title might suggest the message of the book to be anti-marriage that is not the case. Really the message is to not be influenced by family or friends when making decisions that should be made by listening to your own SELF.
This book read like a memoir but is fictional although inspired by the author's own life. As a reader you make an instant connection with the main character and it feels like she is speaking directly to you.
However, I think the author's intent is to create something empowering, and it might be to some but I was not one of them. I could sympathize with the character but her experiences were not my own creating a bit of a disconnect that made the author's message less powerful.
It is a journey of self-discovery, the reader is taken to various moment's in the protagonist's life and meets an assortment of influential characters, most notably her overbearing shallow mother.
There is plenty of humor and while the title might suggest the message of the book to be anti-marriage that is not the case. Really the message is to not be influenced by family or friends when making decisions that should be made by listening to your own SELF.
This book read like a memoir but is fictional although inspired by the author's own life. As a reader you make an instant connection with the main character and it feels like she is speaking directly to you.
However, I think the author's intent is to create something empowering, and it might be to some but I was not one of them. I could sympathize with the character but her experiences were not my own creating a bit of a disconnect that made the author's message less powerful.