A review by mostlyshanti
Mansfield and Me: A Graphic Memoir by Sarah Laing

4.0

I haven't read much (or any?) Katherine Mansfield which probably makes me a bad literary inclined New Zealander. Especially because I live about five minutes from the Katherine Mansfield museum thingy. But I read this anyway. I loved how Laing explored the idea that you have to leave New Zealand to be a writer when she (unlike Mansfield) was able to make her career right here. The mansfield/laing sections are intertwined really well, and the art is just so gorgeous. I did find the writing a bit hard to read at times, but that's okay. One thing I did find was that the inclusion of both character's non-straight sexual identities was a bit...unresolved? but it's real people so I guess it doesn't always work out that way.