Persephone's Garden
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A children's song inspires a love of Greek mythology in a young girl. A young woman finds a career in archeology and illustration. A young mother sees her daughter become a woman, as her own mother's memories are lost. Persephone's Garden is a deeply personal story and an inventive study of girlhood, womanhood and motherhood, through memory, history and mythology.
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This made me happy. I loved the introductory metaphor of how she/one is at first Persephone and then Demeter; a certain kind of loss and experience of life. I also loved the meta aspect: drawings about drawings; visual art about visual art. I greatly enjoyed the technical and whimsical aspects of her profession. I thought that the places she lived and visited were interesting.
Additionally, I love graphic memoirs in general. I found her to be endearing, a keen observer of life, a fun mom, a working creative, a loving daughter, and an overall great artist.
