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    Snapshots of a Girl
    Snapshots of a Girl
    Snapshots of a Girl
    Ebook133 pages6 minutes

    Snapshots of a Girl

    By Beldan Sezen

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    In this autobiographical graphic novel, Beldan Sezen revisits the various instances of her coming of age, and her coming out as lesbian, in both western and Islamic cultures (as the daughter of Turkish immigrants in western Europe)—to friends, family, and herself. Through a series of vignettes, she navigates the messy circumstances of her life, dealing with family issues, bad dates, and sexual politics with the raw honesty of a young woman looking for happiness. Snapshots is an amusing, thoroughly modern take on dyke life and cultural identity.

    Beldan Sezen's previous graphic novels were Zakkum and #GeziPark .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArsenal Pulp Press
    Release dateOct 5, 2015
    ISBN9781551526171
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    • 2/5
      I guess the author decided to stay true to her title, because I am given only frustratingly small, random snapshots of her life from here and there instead of a woven tapestry of who she is and how she got there. And that's a real shame, because I really would have liked to get to know her better.

      This "graphic novel" is too unstructured for me and too often veers toward giant pages of text with spot illustrations. The book only really comes alive for me during the few pages where the creator uses a traditional comic book format of panels and word balloons; she shows a real talent for dialogue and pacing on those pages.

      And, to get real petty and peevish, her lettering irritated the hell out of me. It varied from page to page and even on the same page from cursive to printed, from mixed case to all-caps, from free-form hand lettering to an imitation of typeset. And often, to be quirky I guess, on pages with mixed-case lettering, she would capitalize every letter "L" regardless of where it appeared in a word. On other pages, be it mixed-case or all-caps, every "i" would be lower case. AAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHH!
    • 3/5
      I’m sure it’s a fine book, but it is so hard to read I can’t get through the first chapter!!

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