meenusure 's review for:

Talk to My Back by Yamada Murasaki

4.0

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a really raw and sensitive depiction of the struggles and loneliness attached to housewives - yamada focuses on a character that people often forget and overlook, women who are mums and wives. yamada portrays the ways in which women can have their humanity and dreams taken away from them, because even their own family forget that they're more than a servant to their needs - culturally a role that's still very relevant in my own community. it's really refreshed to see a graphic novel focused on the daily life and thoughts of a housewife, in this, yamada depicts the beauty and philosophy on mundane regular life. she also shows the hardships of being a wife and the feelings of alienation between women and men because of factors like patriarchy and the fact that a woman's role here is sole family-orientated, without help from her husband in raising their children.

a graphic novel that still feels fresh and pertinent - so happy i found out about it from a friend as yamada is a really inspiring and interesting storyteller.