Description
When She Set Fire To My Friends’ Houses by Vincy Lim is a powerful and unsettling memoir of surviving physical and emotional abuse and attempted murder. Each troubling account bleeds into the other like a dream, as those who should have love Vincy the most treat them as a burden, and try to get rid of them in many terrible ways.
Vincy’s cartooning is abstracted, and feels like it comes from a deep subconscious place. As Vincy demonstrates so much of the abuse perpetuated against children is kept secret and not believed when help is sought from loved ones, teachers, or the police. Their upfront and often matter-of-fact storytelling makes the abuses they experienced undeniable.
Reading When She Set Fire To My Friends’ Houses will shake you to your core as you witness the extreme level abuse some people are capable of, and the extreme level of survival others are capable of.
Honors
Winner, 2023 MICE Mini-Grant
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