Unterzakhn
10 best books like Unterzakhn (Leela Corman): Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, Calling Dr. Laura, Exit Wounds, The Property, An Age of License: A Travelogue, Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag, Special Exits, We Are On Our Own, Fran, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
| Author | Ellen Forney |
| ISBN | 1592407323 |
Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.
Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly...
| Author | Nicole J. Georges |
| ISBN | 0547615590 |
When Nicole Georges was two years old, her family told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin about her identity,...
| Author | Rutu Modan |
| ISBN | 1897299060 |
Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment...
| Author | Rutu Modan |
| ISBN | 1770461159 |
After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during the Second World War. As they get to know modern Warsaw, Regina is forced to recall difficult things about her past, and Mica begins to wonder if maybe their reasons for coming...
An Age of License: A Travelogue
| Author | Lucy Knisley |
| ISBN | 1606997688 |
Midnight picnics at the Eiffel Tower; wine tastings paired with blowgun lessons; and romance in cafés, cemeteries, and at the Brandenberg Gate--these are just some of New York Times best-selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley's experiences on her 2011 European book tour. An Age of License is both a graphic...
Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag
| Author | Ariel Schrag |
| ISBN | 1416552316 |
Ariel Schrag captures the American high school experience in all its awkward, questioning glory in Awkward and Definition, the first of three amazingly honest autobiographical graphic novels about her teenage years.
During the summer following each year at Berkeley High School in California,...
Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives.
Elderly parents Lars and Rachel, who have enjoyed...
| Author | Miriam Katin |
| ISBN | 1896597203 |
A stunning memoir of a mother and her daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong struggle with faith
In this captivating and elegantly illustrated graphic memoir, Miriam Katin retells the story of her and her mother's escape on foot from the Nazi invasion of Budapest. With her father...
| Author | Jim Woodring |
| ISBN | 1606996614 |
For the past 20 years or so, Jim Woodring's beloved trilobular chuckbuster Frank has enjoyed one mindbending catastrophe after another in the treacherous embrace of The Unifactor, the land into which he was born and from which escape seemed neither desirable nor likely. And then, abruptly, in 2011's...
Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
| Author | Mary M. Talbot |
| ISBN | 1595828508 |
Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father''s Eyes contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social expectations and gender politics, thwarted...
| Author | Carole Maurel |
| ISBN | 2849532266 |
D’un côté, il y a Luisa, 33 ans, photographe culinaire célibataire et incapable de vivre plus de quelques semaines avec un homme. De l’autre, Luisa, 15 ans, des rêves plein son sac à dos, une folle envie de trouver l’amour et de vivre de la photographie… Mais aussi des sentiments inassumés...
| Author | Liana Finck |
| ISBN | 0062291610 |
In an illustrative style that is a thrilling mash-up of Art Spiegelman's deft emotionality, Roz Chast's hilarious neuroses, and the magical spirit of Marc Chagall, A Bintel Brief is Liana Finck’s evocative, elegiac love letter to the turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants who transformed New...
| Author | Nina Bunjevac |
| ISBN | 0224098349 |
In 1975 Nina Bunjevac’s mother fled her marriage and her adopted country of Canada and took Nina back to Yugoslavia to live with her parents. Peter, her husband, was a fanatical Serbian nationalist who had been forced to leave his country at the end of World War II and migrate to Canada. But even there...
Le jour le plus long du futur
| Author | Lucas Varela |
| ISBN | 2756063444 |
Dans une ville futuriste, un robot et un employé de bureau sans histoire vont voir leur existence chamboulée par l'arrivée d'un étranger portant une mystérieuse valise. Cette dernière donne accès à une étonnante pièce permettant la matérialisation des désirs inconscients. Des désirs...
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 0375714529 |
Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in...
| Author | Glyn Dillon |
| ISBN | 1906838429 |
Twenty-eight-year-old Nao Brown, who’s hafu (half Japanese, half English), is not well. She’s suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and fighting violent urges to harm other people. But that’s not who she really wants to be. Nao has dreams. She wants to quiet her unruly mind;...
| Author | Tjitske Jansen |
| ISBN | 9057593602 |
De eerste gedichtenbundel van Tjitske Jansen Het moest maar eens gaan sneeuwen (2003) is met ruim tienduizend exemplaren het best verkochte poëziedebuut van Nederland sinds Neeltje Maria Mins Voor wie ik liefheb wil ik heten (1966). Jansen las voor van Terschelling tot Kaapstad, en staat bekend...
| Author | Claudio Magris |
| ISBN | 8811597897 |
Lei dunque capirà è il racconto di un amore totale e fallito, di un'unione struggente e rifiutata; la donna che parla da un'oscurità misteriosa mostra una forza tenera e spietata nello svelare la grandezza e le meschinità della vita e della morte. Un'acre e dolorosa consapevolezza della passione,...
