Nadja Spiegelman, daughter of Maus creator Art Spiegelman and New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly, wrote this memoir that’s less about her own life, and more about how her life weaves into her mother’s and grandmother’s and great-grandmother’s — and how secret and lies and tricks of memory can affect these relationships. “I saw a pattern forming, like a series of skipping stones that sent ripples through the generations: all the granddaughters and grandmothers who loved each other, all the mothers left stranded in between.” Nadja’s […]
