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title: "I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir"
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# I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir

**Brand:** nadja spiegelman
**Price:** 240 kr
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- **What is this?** I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir by nadja spiegelman
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Innovative Structure and Heartfelt Search for Understanding
  

*by K***Y on Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2020*

I read this book because I was intrigued by some clips from interviews I  had seen of Francoise Mouly. We are about the same age and I too have an art background as well as an artistic daughter, in her late twenties, who grew up in Brooklyn. Although I am not nearly as driven and successful as Mouly, I felt some stabs of jealousy when watching the interviews. I needed more information, at least to quell my envy. I have admired Art Spiegelman for many years and picked up Maus to reread at the beginning of the pandemic. This prompted me to purchase I'm Supposed to Protect You... I can only rave about Nadja Spiegelman's memoir. I loved the way she wove in and out of the past, present and future, connecting trauma and character traits between generations. She is vulnerable and exposes her point of view as child. Her simple response, "oh" to her mother's articulate insistence that everything is fictional and truth does not really exist. The author's bravery to explore her maternal grandmother's childhood in Paris during the Nazi Occupation and not be overshadowed by her father's mother's tragic death by suicide after surviving the Nazi deathcamps. The book is beautifully written, hip, insightful and empathic to all of the personalities that impacted on her own character.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    yet flawed women who have both caused great turmoil in how their childhood memories have been shaped ...
  

*by C***P on Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2016*

I have read many memoirs and many memoirs about mothers and daughters but Nadja Spiegelman’s I’M SUPPOSED TO PROTECT YOU FROM ALL OF THIS is so unique in that Ms.  Spiegelman has the opportunity to explore her relationship with her mother not just from her perspective but from her mother’s and her maternal grandmother’s – by actually interviewing them both for the book. She records her conversations with these two interesting, yet flawed women who have both caused great turmoil in how their childhood memories have been shaped and how they relate to each other as adults. There are discoveries along the way and much healing through Spiegelman’s process – for all. They come to know each other better. What child, now an adult, wouldn’t love the opportunity to ask their parents telling questions as they relate to their upbringing, and find out more about what makes them tick, how they were raised, what secrets they might have hidden, and how they can come to know them better. As a child, who no longer has living parents, I now especially long to have certain questions answered and I can only imagine what the answers might be. This book offers an interesting perspective and gives the reader the opportunity to think about his/her parents in a different way, as well as to see how one generation shapes the next. There is a lot of sorrow. It is not at all a rosy picture, far from it, but an exploration of understanding who parents are and who their parents were.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An Apology for Compassion
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2016*

This memoir, an intensely personal story, is at its core an ode to compassion. Through the troubled and often antagonizing relationships between three generations of mother, daughter and granddaughter, Nadja explores the subjectivity of memory, and how relationships hinge on the competing narratives that these memories hold. Through interviews with her mother and grandmother along with personal disclosure, Nadja shows us each woman's relationship to the memories of a shared events. The indignation over a memory one feels is forgotten all together by another. The structure of the book masterfully parallels this idea of disjointed memories. The events of ones life becomes a collection of moments experienced and interpreted. This is why every page of reading the book opens up a mental dialogue for the reader. You cannot help but re-analyse the memories you yourself put precedence on. You realize that your version of a conflict is necessarily different than the other parties. You understand how generational faults are passed down. Nadja exposes these truths the best way one can, by writing a literary story with compelling characters and elegant prose. "I'm Supposed to Protect You From All This" is not just a good read. It is a moral read and it is an important read.

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