{"id":50083,"date":"2022-12-09T12:12:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=50083"},"modified":"2022-11-23T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:00:16","slug":"a-pros-and-cons-list-for-strong-feelings-by-will-betke-brunswick-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/a-pros-and-cons-list-for-strong-feelings-by-will-betke-brunswick-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings by Will Betke-Brunswick [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49919\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/Pros-and-Cons-for-Strong-Feelings-Will-Betke-Brunswick-BookDragon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"785\" \/>Will Betke-Brunswick alchemizes their beloved mother\u2019s death into an affecting tribute to emotional resilience and everlasting love. For reasons not quite clear, Betke-Brunswick transforms their immediate quartet (two parents, two kids) into an adorable waddle of penguins, with extended family, friends, and acquaintances presented as other avian broods.<\/p>\n<p>As a college sophomore expecting their parents to arrive for a visit, Betke-Brunswick instead learns their mother is seriously ill and quickly flies home. She will, in fact, have just 10 months left to live. As they track their mother\u2019s inevitable decline, they also memorialize the joy and humor, interspersed with flashbacks from the quotidian (their mother\u2019s deft slicing of bagels; eschewing the radio for books on tape) to the heartfelt (playing their song; sharing unique nicknames) to the utterly life-changing (coming-of-age as genderqueer).<\/p>\n<p>Despite the spare page count, Betke-Brunswick\u2019s memoir composed of resonating line-drawn panels in blue, white, and orange proves dense with plenty more pros than cons for eternally binding, never forgetting strong feelings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/A-Pros-and-Cons-List-for-Strong-Feelings-\/pid=9768481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist Online<\/em>, October 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Betke-Brunswick alchemizes their beloved mother\u2019s death into an affecting tribute to emotional resilience and everlasting love. 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