Synopsis
Celebrated artist and writer Belle Yang makes a stunning debut as a graphic memoirist with this story of crisis and survival.
The Barnes & Noble Review
The graphic memoir is a form that seems particularly well suited to conveying what is, to us, a foreign experience. The visual yin marries the verbal yang to yield a full round, each half of which contains a small portion of the other. In their totality, they cannot be unlinked, nor can the book be imagined in any other figuration. Such is the case with Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, and the picture books of Allen Say and Shaun Tan (The Arrival without any words but imagined ones, yet no less powerful an immigrant saga for that). Likewise with Forget Sorrow, the first graphic memoir by illustrator Belle Yang, who describes the complex history of her prominent Chinese family through the glass of her father's reminiscences after his emigration to California.