Calling Dr. Laura : a graphic memoir / Nicole J. Georges.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Mariner booksPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.Description: 260 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780547615592
  • 0547615590
Other title:
  • Calling Doctor Laura
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 741.5/973 B 23
LOC classification:
  • PN6727.G466 C35 2013
Online resources: Summary: In the tradition of Fun Home, a charming debut memoir about the psychic reading that spurs the Portland 'zinester to uncover an old secret about the family she never knew.Summary: When Nicole Georges was two years old, her mother told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her half-sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin about her identity, Nicole turns to radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger for advice. Packed cover-to-cover with heartfelt and disarming black-and-white illustrations, Calling Dr. Laura tells the story of what happens to you when you are raised in a family of secrets, and what happens to your brain (and heart) when you learn the truth from an unlikely source. Part coming-of-age and part coming-out story, this book marks the arrival of an exciting and winning new voice in graphic literature.--From publisher description.
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In the tradition of Fun Home, a charming debut memoir about the psychic reading that spurs the Portland 'zinester to uncover an old secret about the family she never knew.

When Nicole Georges was two years old, her mother told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her half-sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin about her identity, Nicole turns to radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger for advice. Packed cover-to-cover with heartfelt and disarming black-and-white illustrations, Calling Dr. Laura tells the story of what happens to you when you are raised in a family of secrets, and what happens to your brain (and heart) when you learn the truth from an unlikely source. Part coming-of-age and part coming-out story, this book marks the arrival of an exciting and winning new voice in graphic literature.--From publisher description.

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