Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy-- more than her famous father, "Maus" creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers-- Paris-born New Yorker art director Francoise Mouly. It wasn't until she graduated from college that her mother finally opened up to her about her upbringing. This is a book in which every woman will see herself and her mother, and how they glorify, vilify, distort, misunderstand, and ultimately, if they are lucky, make their peace with the past and allow one another to become, imperfectly, themselves.