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Peggy and Molly Gainsborough, the daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s and the frequent subject of his work, are best friends. They spy on their father as he paints, rankle their mother as she manages the household, and run barefoot through the muddy fields that surround their home. But there is another reason they are inseparable: from a young age, Molly periodically experiences bouts of mental confusion, even forgetting...
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"Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife. In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and herself. Sun Yi was a Shanghai journalist caught in the political crosshairs of the 1949 Communist victory. After eight years of government harassment,...
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