Secrets of a Lost Diary

    (Fantagraphics, 2025)

When her dementiastricken grandmother Babi dies, 15yearold Lucy—sensitive and sentimental, with a punky haircut and ears full of piercings—is left reeling and unmoored. That is, until a secret diary locked away in a hidden compartment drops out from Babi’s desk. What follows is a living epistolary, reflecting grandmother and granddaughter’s struggles with belonging. Babi, caught between her PolishJewish past and Mexican home, both of them reckoning with lesbian identity and the need to conceal it. Lucy comes to find they shared far more than a birthday. A moving reflection on love, grief, and connection across generations.
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