9780063007444
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets

A powerfully visceral graphic memoir about motherhood, marriage, divorce, and mental health, Margaret Kimball’s AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS begins when she learns of her mother's suicide attempt thirty years prior, on Mother’s Day of 1988 when Margaret was four years old. Searching for answers, Margaret embarks on an immersive visual journey into the secrets her family has kept for decades. Using old diary entries, medical records, home videos, and other ephemera, Margaret pieces together a narrative map of her childhood, her mother’s struggles, her grandmother’s institutionalization, and her brother’s increasing paranoia and delusions in an attempt to understand what no one likes to talk about: the origins of the fractures in her family. Both a coming-of-age story about family dysfunction, and a reflection on the challenges of mental illness, AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS is funny, poignant, and deeply inspiring in its portrayal of what drives a family apart while also binding them together.

  • Publisher: HarperOne
  • Publication date: 20/04/2021
  • ISBN: 9780063007444
  • Page extent: 288
  • Format: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 229 mm x 152 mm
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