Reviews tagging 'War'

Displacement by Kiku Hughes

12 reviews

klsreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This is a sweet story, a mix of fact and fantasy. Kiku writes and illustrates her journey as a mixed-race, queer Japanase-American unearthing her family history in WWII internment camps. (She refers to interment camps as incarceration camps throughout the book, and rightly so). A magic fog transports her back in time to experience the racism and fearmongering about Asian Americans in the 1940's. Kiku is incarcerated in a room next to her grandmother and great-grandparents and follows their life while cultivating her own in the camp. This is a story about alienation from culture, generational trauma, and the moored "otherness" of multiply marginalized identities. It moved a bit slowly at some points, but it's rich with history, and the art is beautiful. Shamefully, I learned a lot from this short graphic novel. It's a beautiful and real tale of resistance and reconnection. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Police brutality, War, Racism, Grief, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Confinement, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Murder, Death of parent, Violence, Cancer, and Death

samchase112's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

A powerful history lesson and family story wrapped up in a beautiful volume. Review to come!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Confinement, Xenophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Death, Grief, Gun violence, and Religious bigotry

Minor: War and Murder

kaykitty24's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

What a wonderful graphic novel! The writer clearly spent lots of time researching Japanese Incarceration. I appreciated their specificity and commentary about the period was beautifully done. Definitely recommend to anyone! Once again, these stories are so necessary and important to talk about! Thank you, Kiku Hughes, from one hapa to another! 😊💞

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Cancer, War, Xenophobia, Violence, Death of parent, and Racial slurs

cupcakesweetheart804's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I cannot express truly how impactful this story was to read. Kiku was able to weave this beautiful story about how no matter how much we try to bury the past, it will always come back to haunt us. It shows how impactful generational trauma is, even to those who do not grow up actively hearing about said traumatizing event(s). It also shows how true the phrase "if we do not learn from the past, history is doomed to repeat itself" is. This book drew parallels to the events happening surrounding the discrimination of families being separated at the boarder, and muslims being denied entry into the US. The entire time I was reading this I kept thinking about what is currently going on in Palestine, and how these same arguments and rationals are being used as a justification for genocide. It is important to discuss our past to prevent us from continuing to cause these same traumas to communities who just want to live the same way we do. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia

Moderate: War and Gun violence

olive_ia's review against another edition

emotional informative sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Murder and Death

handful_of_frogs's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Racism, Forced institutionalization, War, Xenophobia, Deportation, Police brutality, Cancer, Death, Gun violence, and Medical content

craftingcatlady's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

A wonderfully wrote graphic novel about a girl in the 2020’s America that travels (displaced) to 1940’s Japanese Interment Camps alongside a young version of her grandmother. She lives life in the camps and experiences what life was like for Japanese American’s during World War II. 

This graphic novel are beautifully illustrated. And it draws parallels between the paranoia and xenophobic sentiments of the 1940’s to modern day in the 2020’s. And offers hope that we can prevent history from repeating itself, if we are brave enough to take a stand, and research all parts of our history (the good, the bad, and the ugly). 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, War, Racism, and Confinement

smilagros's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

“ Being in the future meant very little when my education on the past was so limited“. This is one of my favorite graphic novels of all time. I wish more people would talk about it because wow. It was beautiful illustrations and the story was not a history book even though it’s about history. I cannot recommend this graphic novel enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Terminal illness, War, Cancer, Deportation, Confinement, Gaslighting, Hate crime, and Xenophobia

robinks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I had a feeling this book would be quite sad and informative about history, but I was surprised by the incorporation of current struggles and recognition of various forms of resistance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence, Police brutality, Deportation, War, and Excrement

readingwithkaitlyn's review

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Blood, Murder, Confinement, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical content, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Colonisation, Grief, and Hate crime

Minor: Cancer, Xenophobia, Terminal illness, War, and Death of parent

Incarceration camps, disconnection, WWII, Donald Trump, Pearl Habor, Anti-Muslim rhetoric (critical stance), Anti-Black racism, Pearl Habor, Civil Rights Movement, cigarettes, starvation, suffering, poor living conditions.