My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness

"Manga artist Nagata Kabi’s autobiographical graphic novel My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is both deeply specific and universal. Nagata is extremely honest about her struggle to balance personal desire and parental expectation and to find employment in the midst of crippling mental illness. It can be intense, especially if you too struggle with those issues. Her tone, though, is friendly and matter-of-fact, and her art is playful, which lightens the heavy subject matter. Much of the book builds up to Nagata’s first sexual experience – she hires a sex worker, and she’s as refreshingly honest about that encounter as she is about everything else in her life."