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Good Eggs
Good Eggs | Phoebe Potts
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In the tradition of the acclaimed graphic memoirs Fun Home and Persepolis, Phoebe Potts’s Good Eggs is a funny, insightful, and deeply moving book about learning to appreciate what we have...even when we can’t seem to get what we want. In Good Eggs, Phoebe’s quest to conceive a baby forces her to come to terms with her lapsed Judaism, her aspirations as an artist, her neurotic family, and her depression—happily, all with the support of her true loving husband. Potts’s clever, charming, and wonderfully detailed graphic novel evokes the intimacy of Alison Bechdel and the humor of New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.
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megnews
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Such a tough topic to write about.

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Jokila
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Good Eggs meanders quite a bit through time to hit a wealth of different subjects Potts has confronted in her life, but I wouldn't compare it to Persepolis or Fun Home (which have very concrete themes & high stakes conflicts). It IS an excellent visual representation of depression, or "The Voice": text that intrudes on her other activities to remind her that she's a worthless loser--but unfortunately, that's not the subject of the book.

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WhoisAmyB
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Beautifully drawn graphic novel. I read it all in 1 day. The characters are captured very vividly. Although I can't relate to the author's fertility struggles, I very much identified with her feelings of being untethered. Excellent afterword to sum up the heart of the book.