5/12/2023 0 Comments Bezimena by Nina Bunjevac![]() ![]() ![]() ” There’s something off, and her personality seems to have changed. It tells the story of Melinda, a sheepish, morose, high school student who seems to grate on the nerves of the more “ popular people. Speak is an adaptation of a previous prose book by the novelist Laurie Halse Anderson herself, and employing Emily Carroll’s fluid linework, here deprived of her magnificent colours but pulling no punches with what she’s able to do with solid blacks, washes and many shades of gr e y. Both these books create semi-fictive narrative s that do not explain the crime, but at least provides a story, which, as it solves itself, may grant some peace to the teller. ![]() Both books bring about an attempt to deal with this situation, with the horrible return of the darkest memories, of the blunted pain that never washes away. Both these books deal with sexual abuse and were created by rape survivors. ![]()
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