Agent: Holly Bemiss, Susan Rabiner Literary Agency. Like a giant bowl of spaghetti carbonara or tower of huevos rancheros (recipes included), this is a book that teenagers and parents will savor in equal measure. With each memory Knisley shares, she shows that life, like a good meal, should be savored and that all food-even junk food-is more than “just fuel.” For those uninitiated in the mysterious art of pickling, the nuance of cheese, or making sangria (yes, a couple cocktail recipes appear), Knisley’s candid storytelling, deadpan humor, and clear-line cartooning make the book entirely accessible, extinguishing the pretensions that sometimes predominate the culinary world.
Having grown up surrounded by delicious food, thanks to her gourmand father and earthy superchef mother, Knisley looks back on her childhood and adolescence through her roving palette and voracious appetite for new tastes and experiences. (Oct.“When we eat, we take in more than just sustenance,” writes Knisley (French Milk) in this nostalgic and funny food-centric memoir, and it’s a fitting motto for the book and for anyone who takes even the slightest pleasure in cooking and, more importantly, eating. Will remind readers of their own early trips to Europe and of traveling in their 20s. A word-of-mouth hit when it first came out in a self-published limited edition, French Milk Knisley's cartoony drawings are pleasingly clean in one panel and tellingly detailed in the next. Best of all are Knisley's portraits of home at the beginning and end of the book, which capture her childhood home and college life lovingly but with clear eyes.
Knisley's photographs from the trip punctuate sketches of her daily adventures and musings about graduating from art school, first love and having an adult relationship with her mother. For more than a month, they toured the City of Lights from their fifth arrondissement flat, exploring museums and cafes, taking photographs, eating pastries and drinking French milk, which Knisley says is sweeter than its American counterpart she compares it with the “influence we take in from our mothers.” Knisley's first book is unquestionably a travel journal first and foremost: Lucy-the-writer is so close to Lucy-the-subject that at times the story lacks background and emotional complexity. Knisley, Lucy ( 155 ratings) Rate this Downloadable Graphic Novel, 2008 A lighthearted travelogue-rendered in the form of a graphic novel-about a mother and daughter's life-changing six-week trip to Paris is comprised of the graphic artist daughter's illustrations of the sights and scenes they visited while each was facing a milestone birthday. For her 22nd birthday-and her mother's 50th-Lucy Knisley and her mother went to Paris. Check out her blog and web comic essay series on Her Books: French Milk, from Touchstone Publishing, is a drawn journal about living (and.
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