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In
I Am Trying To Love You, the author vulnerably opens themselves up to exploring their bittersweet relationships and self with a rigorous and sloppy honesty. The result is a quirky and raw memoir that is felt by the reader as a kind of really funny and revealing therapy.
"I wrote these comics between 2019-2022, when I was clumsily and painfully navigating the feral whims of my heart, and desperately trying to understand anything about myself at all. I was chaotic, so my relationships were chaotic. I didn’t know it at the time, but I had no real capacity to be honest with myself, and I think I became so jeopardized by that lack of honesty, that I had to unconsciously create a new way to interact with myself with rigorous accountability and candidness, and this book became that." — From the author’s introduction.
About the author
Em (Emma Jon-Michael Frank) is the author of
I Never Found You, Dark Garbage, Is This The Right Color and two collaborative books,
Things To Do...with Tara Booth, and
The Archway with Patrick Kyle. They live in the US.
Summary
In I Am Trying To Love You, the author vulnerably opens themselves up to exploring their bittersweet relationships and self with a rigorous and sloppy honesty. The result is a quirky and raw memoir that is felt by the reader as a kind of really funny and revealing therapy.
"I wrote these comics between 2019-2022, when I was clumsily and painfully navigating the feral whims of my heart, and desperately trying to understand anything about myself at all. I was chaotic, so my relationships were chaotic. I didn’t know it at the time, but I had no real capacity to be honest with myself, and I think I became so jeopardized by that lack of honesty, that I had to unconsciously create a new way to interact with myself with rigorous accountability and candidness, and this book became that." — From the author’s introduction.
