Talk to My Back

Murasaki Yamada’s Talk to My Back (2022–present, Drawn & Quarterly) is a quietly revolutionary manga about the domestic and emotional labor of a suburban housewife in 1980s Japan, rendered with an unflinching yet tender eye. Originally serialized in the 1980s, this single-volume English edition collects Yamada’s landmark work, translated by Ryan Holmberg, and stands as a key text in the history of alternative manga for its nuanced, slice-of-life feminism. It matters as a rediscovered classic that challenges both the medium’s male-dominated canon and its assumptions about women’s lives.