A moving and well executed graphic novel. There were moments that made me laugh and moments that made me want to cry. It is translated from French, I believe, but you wouldn’t know it from the dialogue, as it is so well done. I thought that the choices the artist made in regard to color were very interesting. I truly enjoyed reading this story!

An excellently drawn and compelling graphic novel about loss and the power of reclaiming lost memories and lost spaces.

This was a very emotional graphic novel for me. I kept imagining my grandmother in that situation and I think I would have done the same thing Clémence did. The story was a very emotional and touching. The artwork was absolutely stunning. I highly recommend this.

Trigger Warning; Suicide, Death

This graphic novel was quite good. This is the story of Marie-Louise, a grandma who is funny and sweet but who also has Alzheimer. This is also the story of Clemence, her grand-daughter who refuses to let her forget and die in a nursing home.
This was an emotional read, especially at the end. I sometimes felt that the story lacked realism, especially with the ending but at the same time, it was quite perfect. It even brought tears to my eyes. Apart from that, this was a nice read, sweet, funny and sometimes sad. I really enjoyed the art also; I think it added a lot to the story.
“Too late arrives sooner that we think”, never forget that. I recommend this graphic novel.
4/5

Really sweet and really sad story but not really my sort of thing, the art is lovely though!!! Really enjoyed it.

Heartbreaking story about a young student who kidnaps her unhappy and increasingly addled grandmother from her nursing home in hopes of saving her grandmother from a medication regime intended to keep her passive and compliant. Told in interwoven flashbacks of both the recent and distant past, the story explores themes of loss, mother/child relationships, love, sexuality, and memory. The sketchy, dreamy sort of art does much to enhance the story.

This graphic novel is beautiful, it perfectly encapsulates what it's to love an old member of your family. Those emotions of wanting to always stay by their side, but at the same time sometimes feel frustrated because curiously ... being old sometimes means being young again and needing someone to take care of you.

But, in the same way that they cared for us with unconditional love, what does it cost to return that love?

I was really moved to tears reading this. I love my grandmother very much and between fights and different visions of life, there are also the conversations about everything and nothing, the shared memories and the affection of years and years, the delicious foods and the always constant question of "Are you eating well?" , "It's cold, put on a jacket"

A precious book dedicated to life itself and love.

One of those books that you don't know you need to read until you read them

I've just finished this amazing piece of art and I'm crying, a lot... I have no word to describe this amazing story about Clemence and her awesome trip with her granny. It's so sad and emotional, and so lovely and sweet at the same time. It makes you think a lot about your family, about each second of your life. It's heartbreaking and beautiful.
When grandparents get old and get sick, all you want is help them to live again, to be happy again. All these memories of our life that we didn't care about them in the past, but now, when the time can stop for our loved ones, each moment, each second counts.
It's a very beautiful graphic novel, but be aware it will break your heart and make you cry.

Clemence is a young student and actress who is suffering through her own sadness when she visits her grandmother in her nursing home. Her grandmother is suffering from memory loss and keeps trying to escape from the nursing home because she is not happy there and yearns to return to her family home on the sea coast. Clemence springs her loose and the two embark on a roadtrip to the coast. Along the way they have moments of connection, moments where grandma doesn't remember who Clemence is or how old she is. Clemence has flashbacks to moments from her past, good memories with her mother, bad memories with school mates that all help to paint the picture of where Clemence currently is emotionally. The book is about Clemence and her grandmother and their journey, but in my eye, the grandmother was foil to show us more about Clemence. Through her journey with her grandmother, Clemence learns more about herself and her relationships. This was an emotional graphic novel, with lovely illustrations. It was truly a moving and often intense read about love, family, loss, sexuality and self.

A sweet but sad story of losing close relationships due to age. Reminds us to cherish the time we have together and to remember to tell those close to us that we love them. A story that centers around a Grandmother who has forgotten her Granddaughter and their last journey together.

This was the best graphic novel I have ever read, it was heart-warming and touching and I am still sobbing after the last pages. It's about a girl who takes away her grandma who has Alzheimer's to her children home, but they are reliving the old times during and it reassures their relationship. I will definitely read it again later. Best read of this year so far.

What a beautiful and heart-wrenching story. Having worked for years with Alzheimer’s patients, I can say this accurately captures the situation. The loss of independence, the family role reversals, the tendency to overmedicate, and just overall, watching someone you love recede into themselves - it’s real time grief.

I haven’t read many graphic novels, so I was surprised how invested I was in the characters. The author brought complexity to this short novel and nothing was lost in translation. Just so well done, with so many sweet sentiments.

This graphic novel was a very difficult, poignant read about a young woman named Clémence who breaks her grandmother out of her retirement home to make a trip to visit her grandmother's childhood home. Her grandmother suffers from Alzheimer’s, so the trip proves to be a difficult one for the both of them, but along the way they revisit old memories and create new ones. I had to pause my reading a few times, as it made me cry but I enjoyed it. Really puts aging and keeping a connection with our loved ones in perspective.

e-Arc provided by Europe Comics via Net Galley for Review. All thoughts are my own.

Plot
This graphic novel follows Clémence, an Actress and student, struggling with her Grandmother's failing health, and dementia. Her grandmother keeps breaking out of the nursing home to try and visit her childhood home. Clémence decides to break her grandmother out, and go on a road trip across France to visit the home.

The story is shown through the road trip, and flashbacks to Clémence's childhood - during which she spent a lot of time with her Grandmother.

Thoughts
I really loved the art style, it was really gorgeous soft colouring. The artist used shades of black, white and red in various flashbacks.

The Queer storyline in this, is a small part of it. As Clémence is struggling with her sexuality while on this road trip.

We also gets flashes of Clémence speaking to police officers, but it is not clear why until nearer to the end. At first I thought she was just imagining these conversations - as there was a part when she envisioned a police car chasing her for taking her grandmother.

I loved the relationship between Clémence and her grandmother. Despite her poor memory, the love between the pair is shown so beautifully.

I would highly recommend if you're looking for a quick, not so light hearted contemporary, graphic novel.

Representation
- LGBT: MC is Queer
- Author is from Belgium, book is set between Belgium and France
- Book was simultaneously published in French and English, no translator is connected with the book - do not know if it is translated, or if the author wrote the script in both English and French.

The moment I saw this book, read its description and requested. I knew I would be sobbing by the end, and that's exactly what hapenned. This book really hit too close to home, I also have family member (in my case my grandpa) who suffers from Alzheimer and it's just so hard to see them slowly but surelt forgetting everything and everyone, especially for those of us who still have those memories. This story was amazing and the art work was also really good. Highly recommend.

A grand daughter is taking (literally kidnapping) his granny out of her nursing home to a journey to her childhood home. Clémence, the daughter of a single mother, is reconnecting through her Alzheimer-suffering grandmother not only to a past which remains at certain extents hidden, but with emotions and the family beyond the everyday dry family conventions.

I´ve read Ne m´Oublie Pas/Forget Me Not, a graphic novel recently published by Europe Comics, authored - both in writing and illustrations - by the Belgium artist Alix Garin in just one sitting. The content story and the way of expressing it is highly emotional. There are so many topics that are covered graciously in this novel, mostly as a gentle conflict between values and their social reason to be followed.

The 85 years old grandmother suffering of Alzheimer may be stuck in a very distant past, and overwhelmed by the present realities, but is the bureaucracy of the medical system entitled to treat her as a body that rather should be controlled - through heavy medication - instead of being allowed to further enjoy a dignified life?

How the relatives of a person affected by this terrible disease may behave when they realize they are just obliterated from the sick person´s memory?

What is really worth in a family life? Connecting with your close relatives - parents, grandparents - in the spot of the moment, and considering fully the uniqueness of every second shared together?

What is life in general worth, after all?

Happily, this comic books is not a (boring and senseless) soliloquy about the meaning(less) of life, but a story where there is a bit of funny action taking place too - as granma haven´t forgotten to roll the dice though.

The graphic is quality too, with pastel backgrounds and effable silhouettes.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Alix Garin and Europe Comics for providing me with a copy of Forget me Not in exchange for my impartial review.

What a beautiful read this was. I recently decided to expand my library to include comics and graphic novels to broaden my reading material, I had no idea comics that evoked such feelings existed until Forget me not.

The story is that of a young person desperately seeking escape for their grandmother who is suffering a life of loneliness and living out their days in a care home.
Our protagonist kidnaps their grandmother who suffers with Alzheimer's from the care home to take them on a journey back to their childhood home.

The art work is really lovely with lots of detail and I found the illustrations of loneliness and sadness compelling.

The story line is full of unexpected turns and covers many themes such as family relationships, loss and grief as well as touching on homophobia and of course Alzheimer's.

I devoured it in one sitting and would have loved more, perhaps a prequal focusing on Clemence's upbringing, childhood and adolescence? Yes please!

<i>"Too late" arrives sooner than we think.</i>

When Clémence sees how miserable her grandmother is in her nursing home, she decides to take her out on an adventure: a road trip to France so that she can see her childhood home one last time. But traveling with someone that suffers of Alzheimer’s disease is not easy and their journey is full of challenges, but will also bring them closer than ever.

Forget Me Not is a beautifully intense and emotional graphic novel that immediately caught my attention thanks to its cover. This book definitely hit home for me: a few years ago I lost my grandma, she was strong, funny and generous with everybody. Losing her was very hard for me, but it was even harder to see her struggling because of senile dementia, which has some traits in common with Alzheimer’s disease.
The story told in Forget Me Not is so real, even with its exaggerations, and it's so heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. It's real because I could definitely see my grandmother in Clémence's, in her sensitivity, in her repetitive questions, so frustrating sometimes ("Where's my purse?"). I cried and I laughed and I couldn't help but love both Clémence and her sweet grandma.
I really liked that we get to see other bits of their lives from their past, their memories together, the struggles they experienced... it was just so great and real!
The funny moments intertwine perfectly with the deep and sad ones, making this novel very well balanced.

The artwork is incredibly beautiful and I loved how the colors change so much according to the characters' moods or energy. I also really liked the precision of some details: the wrinkles and dark spots on old hands, the brightness of the colors of the flowers and the sea, the smoke of Clémence's cigarettes that always looks like a little heart.

And that ending? So so beautiful.
Forget Me Not is such a powerful graphic novel, I loved it so much and it's for sure one of my favorite reads of this year.
5 stars!

* Thank you to Alix Garin, Europe Comics and NetGalley for providing this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

After her grandmother makes yet another attempt to escape her nursing home, Clémence steals her away for a roadtrip to her grammy's childhood home.

This was a really beautiful graphic novel. The story and particularly the relationship at its centre were so tender and devastatingly real. Having lost my own grandmother to Alzheimer's, this story made me bawl. The soft colours of the art strike such a beautiful and melancholy tone, perfect for the story it's telling. I loved both Clémence and her grandmother, and the queer rep and humour were added bonuses. I hope to get a copy of the French original to compare, but the English translation read smoothly and seemed really well done. Overall, really enjoyed this even if it did somewhat break my heart.

TW: confinement, suicidal ideation, grief, homophobic slurs, violence, animal death

Thank you to NetGalley and Europe Comics for providing this review copy

This was a very intense and heartfelt story about family, particularly about the grandparent-grandchild relationship. I really related to what the MC was feeling throughout the book and this made me connect a lot to the story. I liked the plot and the journey but I felt like things were a little hazy at the end and I don't really feel as if the ending fits well to the rest of the story, and I felt like some things weren't properly tied up at the end. This ended up being a lot darker than I thought it would be but nevertheless, I still enjoyed this graphic novel a lot and think that it has a pretty meaningful message.