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Dear Scarlet

The Story of My Postpartum Depression

by Teresa Wong
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In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet perfectly captures the quiet desperation of those suffering from PPD and the profound feelings of inadequacy and loss. As Teresa grapples with her fears and anxieties and grasps at potential remedies, coping mechanisms, and her mother's Chinese elixirs, we come to understand one woman's battle against the cruel dynamics of postpartum depression.
Dear Scarlet is a poignant and deeply personal journey through the complexities of new motherhood, offering hope to those affected by PPD, as well as reassurance that they are not alone.


This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A book with many images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

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  • Release date

    June 4, 2019

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781551527666

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      April 15, 2019
      Wong addresses this memoir of her postpartum depression (PPD) to her firstborn daughter, whose birth led to the author's first brush with the debilitating illness. With clean, open, black-and-white line comics, Wong illustrates how she completely lost her bearings after giving birth and ultimately found support, learned coping mechanisms, and felt like herself again. Never undermining her feelings or their severity, Wong uses humor to lighten the mood in one-page diagrams of her postpartum body and mind (labeled not for the faint of heart ) and in sharing her embarrassment over the time she was undone by a Coldplay song. She depicts significant expression with tiny adjustments to her simplified faces. In looping white script on an all-black background, Wong devotes a page near the end of her book to perhaps its most memorable message: simply put, I wanted to die, but I'm thankful I didn't. From this easy-reading and welcoming story of Wong's very tough time, readers will understand that suffering from PPD is not unique, and there's lots of help?and hope?available.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)

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