BELLE YANG |
A writer and artist who came here with her dazzling, debut book, Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders, over fifteen years ago, Belle Yang is back with an extraordinary new graphic memoir, Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale (W.W. Norton). "Though she has drawn from her life in her popular children's books, Yang has never offered the level of psychological reflection and familial revelation shown here. The subtitle, "An Ancestral Tale," tells only half the story. The author narrates her own story, which encompasses the story of her father, who tells the story of his ancestors that his daughter then mediates through her artistry ... It's a tale of Taoism and Buddhism, with the meditative state wondrously captured by the artist, and of the tension between the seeming passivity that spirituality appears to instill in some and the personal ambitions of others. The narrative seamlessly shifts between present and past, and between America and China, mixing the intimacy of a memoir with the artist's visual allusions to such sources as King Lear and "The Scream." A transformational experience for author and reader alike." - Kirkus Reviews.
- Street:
- The Elliott Bay Book Company
- Additional:
- 1521 Tenth Avenue
- City:
- Seattle ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98122
- Country:
- United States
