The Secrets in My Mother’s Nightstand
When I was little, nothing made me feel closer to Mom than rifling through her prized possessions.
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Sophia Glock is a cartoonist who lives in Austin, TX. Her graphic memoir, Passport, was published by Little Brown Young Readers in 2021.
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This post was originally published on May 6, 2016.
Really lovely story-telling, and your drawing matches your words like a hand sliding into a mother's glove. I watched my daughters go through their mothers things after she died. All the beauty and the mystery and the love and loss and memory wrapped up in those small items is an everyday miracle. They'd stare at them, hold them, treasure them. Thanks for helping bring that memory back to me.
This is so amazing. I didn't know that image and text could be wedded together so well.