Girl on Film: a graphic novel memoir of a life in the arts and the biological basis for memory-formation

Girl on Film: a graphic novel memoir of a life in the arts and the biological basis for memory-formation

Cecil Castellucci (previously) is a polymath artist: YA novelist, comics writer, librettist, rock star; her latest book, Girl on Film, is an extraordinary memoir of her life in the arts, attending New York's School for the Performing Arts (AKA "The Fame School") and being raised by her parents, who are accomplished scientists.

Castellucci's father, Vincent F Castellucci, is a neuroscientist who is one of the world's leading experts on the formation of memories. Cecil's memoirs alternate between her recollections of her childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, and present-day kitchen-table conversations with her father about the malleable nature of memory, and the involuntary confabulation that we all engage in whenever we recall our pasts.

Girl on Film: a graphic novel memoir of a life in the arts and the biological basis for memory-formation Boing Boing, November 19, 2019