Andrew Limbong

And you just, like, make sure you don't get the two mixed up.

And, like, that's what reading this book feels like, you know?

Yeah.

Like, in today's parlance, it's, like, catching these women at a moment of crashing out, right?

And they're just, like, spiraling.

And it's like, okay, this is hilarious.

Actually, that's a great segue to our next segment, which is If You Like This, Read That, where we recommend books based off of this one.

I think I want to start because I've got this collection called Where I'm Coming From by Barbara Brandon Croft.

She was, I believe, the first...

syndicated black female cartoonist in the 90s.

What it is is that she's got these like nine characters and the way her art style is, they're literally like talking heads and they're just like, sometimes all of these strips are just like these women talking to each other, sometimes on the phone, sometimes, you know, they're just like talking to each other about...

like the news of the day, essentially a lot of like ripped from the headlines, a lot of like the stuff that's going on when it comes to finding black men, when it comes to being a single mother, when it comes to like current day back then, right?

Like the politics of the time.

And it gives me the same, and I can't tell if it's specifically because of the aesthetics of the art.

It gives me the same sense memory as Waiting to Exhale does of like going to Starbucks to buy a CD.

You know what I mean?

That like, that very...

I can like see the furniture and like the kind of faded green of the walls.

And it's given me that same sort of aura.

And so that's my book recommendation.