I should have known better than to equate drawn art = lighthearted book, but I have learned and have thoroughly enjoyed the lesson. This book is excellent.

Ruby has been a favorite artist of mine for a long time, and I jumped at the chance to get a book of hers when I saw it; as is all of her work, it is great. She is such a master of distilling feelings and thoughts into their essential, rock-you-to-your-core relatable bits. It's equal parts funny and heartbreaking, both because I understand her pain and because I'm sad she has had it, too. I love that she's paired personal essays with drawings of multiple lengths; it all hits in particular ways and gives a nice pacing to the book. It's like looking into someone else's brain and seeing that you are not alone.

I have no bad things to say, so my summary is this: if you'd enjoy a humorous and relatable but very real and harrowing book about mental health, depression, anxiety, body image, and disordered eating, then this book gets a strong recommendation from me.

P.S. The mental health bits are strewn throughout (it is the whole point, after all), but the body and food parts are kept to their contained chapters.