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A review by justabean_reads
Portrait of a Body by Julie Delporte
4.0
Another drop-dead gorgeous graphic novel by Drawn & Quarterly. (Seriously, the cover is textured, and I keep petting it.)
Though perhaps graphic novel is not the correct term. It's a written meditation on the author's experience with sexuality, gender and sexual violence, as she came out as a lesbian later in life, or perhaps decided to be a lesbian because the other options were immensely tiresome. This is all illustrated with her drawings of somewhat thematic series of objects, such as vulva-shaped geodes, bits of seaweed, and flowers. (I'm curious if the translators also redid all the lovely looping cursive, or if Delporte redid all that in English once she had the translation.) It's meditative, and rewards reading slowly (and looking up the end notes), and I liked the emphasis on finding solace and self-knowledge in other women.
Though perhaps graphic novel is not the correct term. It's a written meditation on the author's experience with sexuality, gender and sexual violence, as she came out as a lesbian later in life, or perhaps decided to be a lesbian because the other options were immensely tiresome. This is all illustrated with her drawings of somewhat thematic series of objects, such as vulva-shaped geodes, bits of seaweed, and flowers. (I'm curious if the translators also redid all the lovely looping cursive, or if Delporte redid all that in English once she had the translation.) It's meditative, and rewards reading slowly (and looking up the end notes), and I liked the emphasis on finding solace and self-knowledge in other women.