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Loading... Cheeky: A Head-to-Toe Memoir (2020)by Ariella Elovic
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss. An excellent graphic novel on a young women coming to terms with all things body related - hair, weight, periods... someone called this an illustrated bodily memoir, which sounds about right. The author gets graphic, so this is not for everybody. She also grew up in what seems to be a fairly upper class household - some of her casual descriptions of spending money and habits startled me. I put this on hold at the library this up because I thought it was a graphic novel, but it's one of those in-between books: a heavily illustrated memoir with some pages just being a picture and others dominated by many small paragraphs or one large block of tiny, typeset text. I thought about passing entirely but decided to give it a go after flipping through and seeing a bunch of gross stuff and nudity. Turns out that's the point of the book. Elovic takes us on an intimate yet bawdy tour of her body and tells us how she has come to embrace its imperfections and inconveniences. It's a little inspirational and a lot amusing as she keeps things moving along briskly with lots of potty humor and her cheeky attitude. Fun. no reviews | add a review
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"The funny, exuberant, inspiring antidote to body shame-a full-color graphic memoir celebrating the imperfections of the author's female body in all its glory. Too tall. Too short. Too fat. Too thin. The message is everywhere-we need to pluck, wax, shrink, and hide ourselves, to not take up space, emotionally or literally; women are never "just right." Well, Ariella Elovic, feminist and illustrator extraordinaire, has had enough. In her full-color graphic memoir Cheeky, she takes an inspiring and exuberant head-to-toe look at her own body self-consciousness, and body part by body part, finds her way back to herself. How does Ariella learn not to see herself as a never-finished DIY project, but to accept and even love the physical attributes society taught her to hide? How does a mirror go from a "black hole of critique" to a "who's that girl" moment? Essential to her journey is her posse of girlfriends, her "yentas." Together, they discover that sharing "imperfections" and some of the gross and "unsightly" things our bodies produce can be a source of endless laughs and deep bonding. It helps to have a team with some outside perspectives to keep our inner bullies in check. Charming and hilarious, full of empathy and candor, and gorgeously illustrated, Cheeky aims to inspire women everywhere to embrace their bodies, flaws and all, and also their respective bodies' needs, desires, and inherent power"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.4613Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Specific aspects of culture Technology Medicine and health Personal health (body image, eating)LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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