Ariella Elovic

I put this on hold at the library this up because I thought it was a graphic novel, but it's one of those in-between books: a heavily illustrated memoir with some pages just being a picture and others dominated by many small paragraphs or one large block of tiny, typeset text. I thought about passing entirely but decided to give it a go after flipping through and seeing a bunch of gross stuff and nudity. Turns out that's the point of the book.

Elovic takes us on an intimate yet bawdy tour of her body and tells us how she has come to embrace its imperfections and inconveniences. It's a little inspirational and a lot amusing as she keeps things moving along briskly with lots of potty humor and her cheeky attitude. Fun.… (mehr)