Ephemera

Gorgeous art but felt too mysterious or light to be a memoir. Sorry I don't want to gatekeep genres but I come away from this knowing almost nothing about the author. I assume that this was cathartic or otherwise therapeutic for her to make but it leaves me ...nonplussed? She likes plants, has a sibling, and their mother was ...absent, likely negligent, possibly ill? She might have forgiven or made some peace with her mother.

unclear to me if the mother (was it even her mother? I mean she calls her Mum, but she draws her so elderly looking. I call my grandmother ‘mom', I dunno, anyway) committed suicide, succumbed to her illness, or had an accident.

A heartbreaking story but told through beautiful illustrations.