Spellbound : a graphic memoir
(Graphic Novel)

A graphic novel that is part journal, part memoir, part fictionalized retelling in an imagined parallel reality. The author quit her job as an architect to work fulltime on a graphic novel. The book presents the story her life growing up in New York City as the child of immigrants from India, and depicts her years as an alienated college student and later as a comics artist that has to figure out how to make art and pay the bills. However, Som substitutes Anjali, a cisgender Bengali-American woman, for herself in a narrative that tracks her transformation into a cartoonist as well Som's internal process of coming to terms with gender. -- Publisher's Weekly.

"The meticulous artwork of transgender artist Bishakh Som gives us the rare opportunity to see the world through another lens. The exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, explores the concept of identity by inviting the reader to view the author moving through life as she would have us see her, that is, as she sees herself. Framed with a candid autobiographical narrative, this book gives us the opportunity to enter into the author's daily life and explore her thoughts on themes of gender and sexuality, memory and urbanism, love and loss."--Amazon.