Red Canary of Death

Reading this really reminded me of a comic book. It had more pictures than anything, but just by looking at the pictures, you could really tell what was going on. The story was about a girl whose family was very separated and each led very independent lives.  They were all artists and spent most of their time alone working on their music or writings or drawings. The little girl told her story about growing up in this kind of environment and how she learned to kind of raise herself and learned to rely on herself for things instead of always having to ask someone for something. For example, in one of the panels, she talked about how she asked her mom to make her dinner because she was hungry and her mom kept saying something like, "Not now." or "In a minute." So she just made her own food and took from the whole experience how to be independent. I think her opinion on her childhood, however, was bittersweet.