kaislea reviewed Becoming unbecoming by Una
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5 stars
Una has woven this story with unbelievable amount of thought, detail and knowledge about everything that's necessary about the subject: trauma and its way of functioning (even the disputable ways it shows), the politics and justice system, the feminist movement, the multiple ways information travel and can be found in different areas, political situations or by different people, sex workers, therapy and other mental health services and the problems within that category, sexuality of young people and the myth about just world, affecting all of our public decision making paths. I absolutely loved the exactness and informativity about each and every subject, and the way they were handled and talked about was simply brilliant.
And yet, all of this information is simplified to its core, reading is paced wonderfully with breathing space whenever needed, and reading is not difficult or heavy at any point.
I don't always like the silent …
Una has woven this story with unbelievable amount of thought, detail and knowledge about everything that's necessary about the subject: trauma and its way of functioning (even the disputable ways it shows), the politics and justice system, the feminist movement, the multiple ways information travel and can be found in different areas, political situations or by different people, sex workers, therapy and other mental health services and the problems within that category, sexuality of young people and the myth about just world, affecting all of our public decision making paths. I absolutely loved the exactness and informativity about each and every subject, and the way they were handled and talked about was simply brilliant.
And yet, all of this information is simplified to its core, reading is paced wonderfully with breathing space whenever needed, and reading is not difficult or heavy at any point.
I don't always like the silent pages with symbolic imagery in graphic novels as I tend to often find them pretentious or somehow out of context, but in this it all made perfect sense, and also brought a lot of emotion into it. The haunting drawings described feelings, thoughts and abstract things like guilt in a way words could have not. Everything included was important and with a purpose.
A perfect graphic novel.