Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Maus: A Survivor's Tale. My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

6 reviews

tonyhonk's review

challenging dark informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Violence, Genocide, Racism, Antisemitism, War, Child abuse, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

nia_readsalot's review

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Genocide, Hate crime, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Physical abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, Death of parent, Violence, Confinement, Death, Gore, Domestic abuse, War, and Grief

archaicrobin's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Art Speigelman illustrates the conversations he has with his father about his experiences during WWII in Poland. This graphic novel doesn’t shy away from the horror that Speigelman’s family endured, and is at times a hard read but a very necessary one. Speigelman includes his father’s story along with scenes in present day detailing how these conversations took place, and the result is a captivating tale that I can’t wait to continue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Violence, Antisemitism, Child death, Hate crime, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Deportation, Genocide, Grief, Racism, Religious bigotry, War, and Xenophobia

marinapetal's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Antisemitism, Violence, Torture, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Genocide, Death of parent, Death, Confinement, and Child abuse

marissasa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This graphic novel is hard-hitting, emotional, and complex in every way. The Holocaust is always a hard topic to read about, and yet the comic format with Jewish people represented as mice, Polish people as pigs, and German people as cats presents a true narrative of a Jewish family's survival in a way that makes the atrocities they faced seem just as horrific as they were, but somehow also more digestible and readable. I very much admire Art Spiegelman's artistic choice to include imagery of himself at the present time of interviewing his father and the discussions they had about the experiences he would eventually turn into a comic, making the comic meta while also giving a chance to see what his father was like in the present in comparison to how he was in the past while living through life in Poland. The art itself is haunting but brilliantly done, filled with details and expressions of fear, surprise, grief, and more that you wouldn't expect to come across as emotional as they do when depicted on mice. I was interested in reading this book ever since I heard it made its way onto banned books list in America, and I am glad I read it because I now know how important a piece of work like this is in preserving history and personal accounts of the Holocaust, and how its uniqueness in presentation allowed discussions around the crimes of Nazi Germany to be more easily accessible and held especially among children just learning the history today.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Slavery, Suicide, Vomit, War, Antisemitism, Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Police brutality, Violence, Child death, Confinement, Grief, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Terminal illness, and Torture

rsngphoenix's review

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Antisemitism, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Hate crime, Cursing, Death, Self harm, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Suicide, Violence, and War