We're All Just Fine (Graphic Novel)

We're All Just Fine (Graphic Novel)
Ana Penyas
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Hardback
h178 x 242mm - 112pg
31 Jan 2023 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781683965800
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Artist Ana Penyas' s grandmothers Maruja and Hermanina live alone in their respective Spanish towns, largely neglected by their children and relatives, who never visit. But when Ana comes to see them, she realises that these women, whose day-to-day existences now seem mundane, experienced firsthand an incredibly tumultuous and fascinating period of Spanish history. In We' re All Just Fine, Penyas weaves the memories of her grandmothers to craft a narrative quilt that pieces together what it was like for women to assimilate to Spain' s dramatic political and cultural shifts in the late 1970s and ' 80s. The sudden transition from the authoritarian, repressive Franco regime to lively and liberating democracy was at once incredibly freeing but also destabilising for women used to their traditional roles as dutiful housewives. Through this intimate lens into her grandmothers' daily struggle - of their silence, the small acts of rebellion, and great gestures of resilience - Penyas gives voice t
Ana Penyas studied Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In 2018, she received Spain' s National Comic Award for her debut graphic novel, Estamos Todas Bien. Her latest graphic novel, Todo Bajo El Sol, was released in 2021, and her comics were featured in the Fantagraphics anthology Illustrating Spain in the US in 2022. Andrea Rosenberg is a translator who has worked on a variety of novels and graphic narratives in Spanish and Portuguese. Her translations of the graphic novels Run For It by Marcelo D' Salete and The House by Paco Roca won Eisner Awards in 2018 and 2020, respectively.

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