Pretending is Lying

<b>Now in paperback,<i></i>a “tender, affecting” (<i>NYTBR</i>) memoir unlike any other, and the first book to appear in English by the acclaimed Belgian artist Dominique Goblet.</b><br><br>In a series of dazzling fragments—skipping through time, and from raw, slashing color to delicate black-and-white—Dominique 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.