sarahjay
Written on Mar 10, 2015
"In the next installment of her graphic memoir series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over her ailing grandparents on a cruise. (The book's watercolors evoke the ocean that surrounds them.) In a book that is part graphic memoir, part travelogue, and part family history, Knisley not only tries to connect with her grandparents, but to reconcile their younger and older selves. She is aided in her quest by her grandfather's WWII memoir, which is excerpted. Readers will identify with Knisley's frustration, her fears, her compassion, and her attempts to come to terms with mortality, as she copes with the stress of travel complicated by her grandparents' frailty" --
- ISBN10 1606998102
- ISBN13 9781606998106
- Publish Date 19 February 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Fantagraphics
- Format Paperback
- Pages 168
- Language English
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