Yet she knew little about her own family's involvement though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Near the end of her fast-paced book, she shares a hard-earned resolution: "I will work to separate people trying to help me from the systems they operate within.* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal This "ingenious reckoning with the past" ( The New York Times), by award-winning artist Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family's wartime history in Nazi Germany. In a cartoon style that occasionally makes me think of Cathy Guisewite, she relates the story of her breakdown, her hospitalization and her rage against the pharmaceutical-industrial complex. After quitting her job in what appears to have been a manic episode, she was involuntarily committed by her parents.
As a person with bipolar disorder, she had taken the medications she was now competing against. Grand Central.Īfter a promotion at her pharma job, Lindsay found herself in the position of being a person with a mental illness selling a medication for people with mental illness. "Rx: A Graphic Memoir." by Rachel Lindsay. I applaud his audacity in rendering Kafka's paranoid fantasy "The Burrow" in 20 stark pages of drawings. Kuper adapts two of Kafka's most familiar stories, "A Hunger Artist" and "In the Penal Colony," but he also takes on many less familiar pieces. Norton.Īrtist Kuper's expressionistic black-and-white approach is a perfect fit for Kafka's anxious miniatures and tales. "Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories." By Peter Kuper. This graphic-novel adaptation has the potential to bring Anne Frank's story to many people who would otherwise never read it. The diary of a completely normal Dutch girl who hid from the Nazis and was murdered by them is one of the landmark books of the 20th century.
"Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation." Adapted by Ari Folman, illustrations by David Polonsky. Given the large percentage of Wisconsinites with German heritage, this book deserves a wide reading in this state, and a home in local libraries.
In part, "Belonging" is about feeling shame about being German because of the sins of past Germans.
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