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Sarah Lightman is like the poster child for a new kind of feminist activist-scholar, artist, curator, and cheerleader for comics that reveal and shape new forms of Jewish consciousness. -Ariel Kahn, Jewish Quarterly

There is so much more here worth analysis and praise-the use of a carton of eggs in a reverie about contemplating pregnancy; the distantly rhymed images of her therapist's shoes, the first male, the second tellingly female. -Chris Gavaler, Pop Matters I love The Book of Sarah. This is a deeply layered work, from the elegant, evocative writing to the diverse range of materials-charcoal, oil paint, and watercolor as well as graphite pencil. The Book of Sarah is a memoir that is rich with revelations for the reader to uncover. -Samantha Baskind, author of The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture Sarah Lightman is like the poster child for a new kind of feminist activist-scholar, artist, curator, and cheerleader for comics that reveal and shape new forms of Jewish consciousness. -Ariel Kahn, Jewish Quarterly The Book of Sarah is an extraordinary treasure. The paintings and drawings are luscious and incredibly evocative, with the visceral quality of the thick paint and the layered graphite. The writing is heartfelt and honest, searching and tender. In The Book of Sarah art and words come together to chronicle a self-in-becoming: precarious and sometimes delicate, but, like a tenacious plant sending out tendrils of new growth, this memoir is simultaneously filled with powerful, gripping revelations of strength. -Maureen Burdock, author of Feminist Fables for the Twenty-First Century: The F Word Project

Sarah Lightman is like the poster child for a new kind of feminist activist--scholar, artist, curator, and cheerleader for comics that reveal and shape new forms of Jewish consciousness. --Ariel Kahn, Jewish Quarterly

Sarah Light man is one of our lead ing lights in Jew ish-themed comix, both as a schol ar and a prac ti tion er. -Ranen Omer-Sher man, Jewish Book Council I love The Book of Sarah. This is a deeply layered work, from the elegant, evocative writing to the diverse range of materials-charcoal, oil paint, and watercolor as well as graphite pencil. The Book of Sarah is a memoir that is rich with revelations for the reader to uncover. -Samantha Baskind, author of The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture There is so much more here worth analysis and praise-the use of a carton of eggs in a reverie about contemplating pregnancy; the distantly rhymed images of her therapist's shoes, the first male, the second tellingly female. -Chris Gavaler, Pop Matters While searching for a scaffolding to build her life on, we see it was there all along in her art and in The Book of Sarah, Lightman leads us to a place that is both gorgeous and profound. -Emily Steinberg, Cleaver Magazine The Book of Sarah is an extraordinary treasure. The paintings and drawings are luscious and incredibly evocative, with the visceral quality of the thick paint and the layered graphite. The writing is heartfelt and honest, searching and tender. In The Book of Sarah art and words come together to chronicle a self-in-becoming: precarious and sometimes delicate, but, like a tenacious plant sending out tendrils of new growth, this memoir is simultaneously filled with powerful, gripping revelations of strength. -Maureen Burdock, author of Feminist Fables for the Twenty-First Century: The F Word Project Sarah Lightman is like the poster child for a new kind of feminist activist-scholar, artist, curator, and cheerleader for comics that reveal and shape new forms of Jewish consciousness. -Ariel Kahn, Jewish Quarterly

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Sarah Lightman is a London-based artist, curator, editor, and writer. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Arts at Birkbeck College, University of London, and editor of the award-winning book Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics.

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