Shame Pudding: A Graphic Memoir
by Danny Noble
Publication Date: May 2020
6.25” x 9”
208 pages
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781951491031
Ebook ISBN: 9781951491109
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US $16.99
What People Are Saying
“Noble immediately establishes an authentically intimate voice, confessional but also self-aware and generous; her endearingly scratchy, impressionistic iink drawings feel like she's trusting readers with pages from her diary.”—Publishers Weekly. February 24, 2020.
“A sensitive coming-of-age story and tribute to how the author's family shaped her into the artist she is, illustrated in loose pen and ink lines and distorted forms that exude Noble’s warmth for her characters.”—Library Journal. June 1, 2020
“What Noble so touchingly portrays here with a cheeky, affectionate wit are the idiosyncrasies, the customs, the rituals, and the shared jokes of family life that will resonate with every reader. They’re at once incredibly personal and specific, and yet simultaneously also familiar and even universal. For all the fun of the carefully observed and lovingly flippant humour on show here, though, it’s the quieter moments that ironically speak loudest.”—Broken Frontier: Exploring the Comics Universe. May 4, 2020.
“It gave me back something precious I thought I'd lost. I'm in awe and will reread it often.”—Liana Finck, author of Passing for Human
“I love this book. It's beautiful, touching gritty and hilarious. A refreshing perspective on an era that's so familiar to many of us. So heartwarming but never saccharine. Very real and true.”—Adrian Edmondson, Actor and Comedian
“A comforting memoir that captures the funny strange and enduring spirit of family, and the love that we many always return to when things are falling apart.”—Ruby Elliot, author of It's All Absolutely Fine
Synopsis
A celebration of the wacky and wonderful Jewish grandmothers who nurtured the author as she grew from a kid struggling with anxiety and insecurity to a teen finding her own voice.
Danny Noble’s mother insisted that they celebrate all types of religious holidays with fun and fireworks, but they wouldn’t bother with the fasting ones as long as they were kind. Grandma would pinch her cheeks and say “shayne punim” which in Yiddish means pretty face, but to Danny and her little brother it sounded like “shame pudding”. The author shares stories of her charming and eccentric family and her adolescent struggles with anxiety, fear, friendship, and romantic love.
About the Author
Danny Noble grew up in Brighton, a seaside town on the south coast of England. She later moved to London, and even lived through several winters in a trailer in a public park. She recently illustrated two children’s books written by the British actor, Adrian Edmondson. And her narrative art has appeared in many anthologies and exhibitions including The Strumpet, Dirty Rotten Comix, and The Inking Women. When not drawing, the author sings with the ska band The Meow Meows. Instagram: @mundy_morn Twitter: @MundyMorn
