Lucy Knisley – illustratör

Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe - many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions. A welcome read for anyone who ever felt more passion for a sandwich than is strictly speaking proper, Relish is a book for our time: it invites the reader to celebrate food as a connection to our bodies and a connection to the earth, rather than an enemy, a compulsion, or a consumer product.

If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you're smart and talented and “good enough,” you can do anything. Except get pregnant.Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she’d ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy was plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience in labour and delivery.Kid Gloves follows Lucy’s personal transition into motherhood, and it also illustrates the history and science of reproductive health from all angles, full of curious facts and inspiring (and notorious) figures in medicine and midwifery.

Aquesta novel·la gràfica de Lucy Knisley, l''autora supervendes del The New York Times tracta sobre la família i la pertinença. Lucy Knisley dona vida a una història inspirada en la seva pròpia infància i en un viatge increïble d''amigues, de germanes i de llars inversemblants. La Jen, la protagonista, està acostumada a aconseguir allò que vol. Així que el fet d''haver de deixar la ciutat i anar-se''n a viure a un lloc nou i tractar amb germanastres, no hauria de ser cap problema per a ella. La Jen, però, no volia marxar de la ciutat. No volia mudar-se a una granja amb la seva mare i la nova parella de la mare. No volia deixar les seves amistats ni el seu pare. Però, sobretot, el que no volia la Jen era tenir noves "germanes": l''Andy i la Reese. La Jen haurà de batallar amb les seves pròpies inseguretats sobre la seva nova família i el lloc que ella ocupa.