In Liana Finck’s graphic memoir, Passing for Human (Random House, 2018), the character representing the protagonist’s mother, Bess, has a talking shadow. When they banish their shadows, Bess and Leola renounce parts of themselves. The unchanging forms of the shadows in Passing for Human embody that idea. Personally, I like that the shadows take the form of the youthful self in Passing for Human. The key relationship that gets repaired, in Passing for Human, is a person’s relationship with herself.