Synopsis
When her dementia-stricken grandmother Babi dies, 15-year-old Lucy —sensitive and sentimental, with a punky haircut and ears full of piercings— is left reeling and unmoored. That is, until a secret diary locked away in a hidden compartment drops out from Babi’s desk. What follows is a living epistolary, reflecting grandmother and granddaughter’s struggles with belonging. Babi, caught between her Polish-Jewish past and Mexican home, both reckoning with lesbian identity and the need to conceal it. Lucy comes to find they shared far more than a birthday. A moving reflection on love, grief, and connection across generations.
From: Fantagraphics
Notes on This Title
The two focal characters of this title are a lesbian Jewish 15-year-old girl and an elderly bisexual Jewish woman who is a cancer survivor, and who, at the time of her death, is living with dementia and using a wheelchair.
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