guest review by Tahneer Oksman   “Sometimes it feels much easier to bare intensely personal information with a stranger than to tell your real friends” (55). This is how the narrator of Nicole J. Georges’s graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura, describes why she found herself one day sitting awkwardly on a couch beside an almost-stranger and uttering the secret she had not dared tell any of her friends or family in real life. When the book first opens, Nicole is a 22-year-old living in a small house in Portland, Oregon with her pet dog and chickens. She sports charming… Read More