Pretending Is Lying

Pretending Is Lying

<b><br> <b>The first book to appear in English by the acclaimed Belgian artist Dominique Goblet, <i>Pretending is Lying</i> is a memoir unlike any other. </b><br><br></b>In a series of dazzling fragments—skipping through time, and from raw, slashing color to delicate black and white—Goblet examines the most important relationships in her life: with her partner, Guy Marc; with her daughter, Nikita; and with her parents.<br><br>The result is an unnerving comedy of paternal dysfunction, an achingly ambivalent love story (with asides on Thomas Pynchon and the Beach Boys), and a searing account of childhood trauma—a dizzying, unforgettable view of a life in progress and a tour de force of the art of comics.