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Publication
Seattle : Fantagraphics Books, Inc., 2022.
Description
Who Will Make the Pancakes collects five deeply social stories by the acclaimed cartoonist Megan Kelso, exploring the connective tissue that binds us together despite our individual, interior experience. These stories, created over the past 15 years - roughly contemporaneously with the author's own journey as a mother- wrestle with the concept of motherhood and the way the experience informs and impacts concepts of identity, racism, class, love, and even abuse.
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LibraryThing member villemezbrown
A middling collection of domestic fiction short stories, many of them expanded from shorter works previously published elsewhere (see below).
Watergate Sue
A generational family drama about mothers and daughters, jumping from the present day where a grandchild is about to be born to a woman not yet
Cats in Service
A family inherits the cats the mother's sister has trained to be household servants. Creepy but pointless.
The Egg Room
More meandering family drama. Meh.
Korin Voss
Set in 1947, a single mother's daughters are peripheral to the shambles which are her career and love life. But at least she tries to be nicer to Black people???
The Golden Lasso
A young girl is obsessed with rock climbing and a cute older boy. The most engaging story in the book, it wobbles around in a typical coming-of-age manner but mostly works as it takes a dark turn.
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Contents:
• Watergate Sue / Originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, April to September, 2007.
• Cats in Service / Originally published as a minicomic of the same name in 2014.
• The Egg Room
• Korin Voss / An expanded version of a story previously entitled "The Good Witch," which originally appeared as a one-page comic on the back cover of Strumpet #1 and as a nine-page story in Runner Runner (Free Comic Book Day 2012).
• The Golden Lasso / An expanded version of a 14-page story that previously appeared in the 2011 minicomic Acorns & Pebbles.
Watergate Sue
A generational family drama about mothers and daughters, jumping from the present day where a grandchild is about to be born to a woman not yet
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born in the flashbacks where her mother is obsessing over the Watergate scandal. So?Cats in Service
A family inherits the cats the mother's sister has trained to be household servants. Creepy but pointless.
The Egg Room
More meandering family drama. Meh.
Korin Voss
Set in 1947, a single mother's daughters are peripheral to the shambles which are her career and love life. But at least she tries to be nicer to Black people???
The Golden Lasso
A young girl is obsessed with rock climbing and a cute older boy. The most engaging story in the book, it wobbles around in a typical coming-of-age manner but mostly works as it takes a dark turn.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents:
• Watergate Sue / Originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, April to September, 2007.
• Cats in Service / Originally published as a minicomic of the same name in 2014.
• The Egg Room
• Korin Voss / An expanded version of a story previously entitled "The Good Witch," which originally appeared as a one-page comic on the back cover of Strumpet #1 and as a nine-page story in Runner Runner (Free Comic Book Day 2012).
• The Golden Lasso / An expanded version of a 14-page story that previously appeared in the 2011 minicomic Acorns & Pebbles.
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Awards
Harvey Award (Nominee — Book of the Year — 2023)
NPR: Books We Love (2022)
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Original publication date
2022-11
ISBN
9781683966708