My body in pieces, by Marie-Noëlle Hébert ; translated by Shelley Tanaka
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My body in pieces, by Marie-Noëlle Hébert ; translated by Shelley Tanaka
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
My body in pieces
Nature of contents
comics graphic novels
Responsibility statement
by Marie-Noëlle Hébert ; translated by Shelley Tanaka
Summary
A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman's struggles with self-esteem and body image issues. All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn't make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn't call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This all-too-relatable memoir follows Marie-Noëlle from childhood to her twenties, as she navigates what it means to be born into a body that doesn't fall within society's beauty standards. When, as a young teen, Marie-Noëlle begins a fitness regime in an effort to change her body, her obsession with her weight and size only grows and she begins having suicidal thoughts. Fortunately for Marie-Noëlle, a friend points her in the direction of therapy, and slowly, she begins to realize that she doesn't need the approval of others to feel whole
Target audience
adolescent
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- Autobiographical comics
- Graphic novels
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Overweight persons -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Body image in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Self-perception in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Body image in women -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Hébert, Marie-Noélle -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Beauty, Personal -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Self-esteem in women -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Young adult literature
Content
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- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification2
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Genre4
- Subject12
- Autobiographical comics
- Graphic novels
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Overweight persons -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Body image in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Self-perception in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Body image in women -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Hébert, Marie-Noélle -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Beauty, Personal -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Self-esteem in women -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Young adult literature
- Content2
- Artist1
- Author1
- Is Part Of1
- Translator1