Synopsis
A five-generation family history told through what is seen and heard, if not said
Let’s Not Talk Anymore weaves together five generations of women from Weng Pixin’s family, each at age fifteen. Her lineage is full of breakages—her great grandmother Kuan is sent away from her family in South China, her grandmother Mèi is adopted by a neighbor to help with...
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22 June 2021
9781770464629Reviews
"In this vibrant graphic novel, Weng Pixin journeys through five generations of her family’s women, all when they were aged 15 years, as she reflects on family, trauma, silence and connection."—Ms. Magazine
"What makes Let’s Not Talk Anymore so fascinating is that the comic pages are paintings... This shift in style and representation marks a quiet but important intervention for the art of comics."—The Brooklyn Rail
"This meditation on 'the women who made us' will resonate with any reader who’s pored over old family photographs in search of themselves."—Publishers Weekly
"What makes her book a standout.. is her inventive, dazzling art."—Shelf Awareness, Starred Review
"Weng Pixin’s comics are tender... In Let’s Not Talk Anymore, [her] paintings haunt with the aching silences that hang between generations."—Los Angeles Review of Books Blog
"The slow care [Weng Pixin] puts into each page, enlivening it with floods and washes of bright color, suggests a sunrise rather than the same old merry-go-round. Rather than thinking the pain of the past should keep on being passed from back to back, she gently suggests that talking about it might eventually cause it to dissipate."
—The Comics Journal
"Weng is exploring rich and timeless thematic ground, and she fully does it justice."—Montreal Review of Books
"Blending history with autobiography with speculative fiction, Pixin’s narrative spans 100 years while remaining timeless in its depiction of how family bonds are formed and broken."—Winnipeg Free Press
"Her brushstrokes are beautiful, her color palette is unafraid, and her understanding of the relationships between generations of women is subtle and emotionally intelligent."—Hillary Brown, The Comics Journal
