Good Eggs: A Memoir
By Phoebe Potts
3.5/5
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About this ebook
In the tradition of the acclaimed graphic memoirs Fun Home and Persepolis comes a funny, insightful, and deeply moving book about learning to appreciate what we have when we can't seem to get what we want.
For Phoebe Potts, the path to maternal fulfillment has not been easy. All her friends seem to get pregnant, but she can't conceive for all her trying. As Phoebe and her husband, Jeff, navigate the emotionally and physically fraught world of fertility experts, she takes stock of what matters in the rest of her life and reflects on the winding journey to her true calling as an artist. From her days as an amateur union organizer in Texas to her spiral into paralyzing depression in Mexico; from her soul-shrinking, all-for-the-benefits stint as an administrative assistant at a fancy university in Cambridge to her flirtation with rabbinical school, Phoebe illuminates the bumpy road to vocational and personal contentment. Her wonderful, hilarious, and utterly original drawings capture the truly good eggs—an unforgettably nutty mother; a devoted husband; a team of therapists, hairdressers, and landladies; friends; and a sidekick housecat—that together expand the definition of what really makes a family.
Phoebe Potts
Phoebe Potts grew up in Brooklyn and then on Martha's Vineyard. A graduate of Smith College, she received her MFA from the Maine College of Art in Portland. She lives with her husband, the artist Jeffrey Marshall, in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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Reviews for Good Eggs
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The author uses the graphic novel format to describe her and her husband's journey to try and conceive. Her navel-gazing didn't do as much for me as reading about the actual processes they went through and the emotional impact when the pregnancies failed to take. It gave me an idea of what I might have gone through had I chosen that route.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The beginning really hit home. Honestly if the book had only been 75 pages it would have been fabulous. A book any infertile could relate too. Unfortunately the book took you well into the past and a life I couldn't relate to or stay interested in. So disappointing.