About this item
A Travel and Leisure, New York Magazine/The Cut, and Real Simple Best Book of Summer A memoir of mothers and daughters - and mothers as daughters - traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers - French-born New Yorker art director Franoise Mouly - exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja's body changed and "began to whisper to the adults around me in a language I did not understand," their relationship grew tense. Unwittingly, they were replaying a drama from her mother's past, a drama Nadja sensed but had never been told.
About the Author
Nadja Spiegelman's forthcoming memoir, "I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This," will be published by Riverhead Books in August 2016. She is the Eisner-award nominated author of the ZIG AND WIKKI graphic series for young children and "Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure."
