My body in pieces / by Marie-Noëlle Hébert ; translated by Shelley Tanaka.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Toronto : Groundwood Books, 2021Description: 100 pages : black and white illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781773064840
- 1773064843
- Grosse laide. English
- Hébert, Marie-Noëlle -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Overweight persons -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Body image in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Self-perception in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Self-esteem in women -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Body image in women -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Beauty, Personal -- Comic books, strips, etc
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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YA Book | Main Library | YA Graphic Novel | 306.4613 H537 | Available | 33111010745764 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman's struggles with self-esteem and body image issues.
All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn't make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn't call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This all-too-relatable memoir follows Marie-Noëlle from childhood to her twenties, as she navigates what it means to be born into a body that doesn't fall within society's beauty standards.
When, as a young teen, Marie-Noëlle begins a fitness regime in an effort to change her body, her obsession with her weight and size only grows and she begins having suicidal thoughts. Fortunately for Marie-Noëlle, a friend points her in the direction of therapy, and slowly, she begins to realize that she doesn't need the approval of others to feel whole.
Marie-Noëlle Hébert's debut graphic memoir is visually stunning and drawn entirely in graphite pencil, depicting a deeply personal and emotional journey that encourages us to all be ourselves without apology.
Key Text Features
graphic novel
comic style
Translation of: La grosse laide.
Translated from the French.
Chiefly illustrations.
"First published in French in 2019 by Les Editions XYZ inc"--Page opposite title page.
"A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman's struggles with self-esteem and body image issues. All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn't make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn't call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This all-too-relatable memoir follows Marie-Noëlle from childhood to her twenties, as she navigates what it means to be born into a body that doesn't fall within society's beauty standards."-- Provided by publisher.