How I Tried to Be a Good Person by Ulli Lust – review

A memoir of a menage a trois reveals the power of desire – and the pain when jealousy rears its head Is it possible to be in love with two people at the same time? Perhaps. Certainly, time has done nothing to shake the conviction of the award-winning Austrian cartoonist Ulli Lust that she was once in precisely such a situation. In the 1990s, when she was still a struggling young artist, Lust was spoony for Georg, an actor 20 years her senior. Kind, clever and good with her parents, he was, she felt, her ideal companion. But there was a problem: sex. That part of their relationship had quickly died, something that bothered her more than him. Determined to stay together, they duly agreed that she should look elsewhere, and not too long after this – boom! went her heart all over again – she met Kimata, a mechanic recently arrived in Vienna from Lagos. Continue reading...