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Kid Gloves

Nine Months of Careful Chaos
Jun 18, 2019JCLIanH rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Kid Gloves is Lucy Knisley's strongest graphic novel since Relish, and it's her best work yet. Like Relish, Kid Gloves is both personal and informational. It's a first hand look at pregnancy that pulls no punches. There are pages upon pages devoted to how much barfing is involved in the early stages of pregnancy, as there should be. Though Knisley's pregnancy ended very uncommonly (and Knisley does a brilliant job crafting her OB "Fonzie" as an absolute villain, which he totally is, a pox upon his house), having lived with my wife through two pregnancies I can say this checks out and it's probably a more useful resource than most pregnancy books.