I received this book from Edelweiss/the publisher in exchange of an honest review.

I saw this graphic novel over at Edelweiss and just fell in love with it. Normally I don’t really read multi-generational books, but this being a graphic novel I thought I could give it a try, and I am so happy I did!

Because this is a good graphic novel about a family. We have three times in which we see the lives of three women. In the now we follow Roz and how she is coping with her body (and her trying to diet to the point of starving herself), the fat-shaming, with her mom’s reactions, to her friends, discovering what she likes, photography, and also of course college admissions. Things are not going well for her and I was just hoping someone would notice, someone would help out. Roz was a sweet character and I loved seeing her in the moments where she found her happy times. In the next time we follow Roz’s mom and see how she also experienced fat-shaming, had issues with her body, and how she had dreams and what happened to them. The last woman is Roz’s mom mom, aka grandmother. The many things she went through, the war, her father trying to sell her off to a husband who already had a wife, to her pregnancy, poverty, and more. It was heartbreaking. She tried to keep on standing. And how we see all these three generations together in Roz’s POV and how things come to explosive reactions, because things are not OK, these women all need to just TALK about things. Let it all out instead of cropping it up and making snide remarks or just fill the times with silence. I just wanted to give all three women a big hug. I was proud of how things went in the last part, Roz especially makes a big big decision that made me very very happy. And I am also so happy for her mom and her grandmother.

I found it a shame that halfway through the colours disappeared. I was such a fan of the different tones for each of the family (daughter, mom, grandmother). I get that it is an uncorrected copy, but it just made me sad.

The illustrations are very pretty and I love the style of it.

All in all, I would definitely recommend this book to all. I would love to see the finished product and see the colours throughout.