Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Displacement by Kiku Hughes

17 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

justcallmeemily's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Murder and Racial slurs

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

theabee's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

Beautifully and poignantly written and illustrated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Murder, Confinement, Death, and Death of parent

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.

rebekkaemmi's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Loved the art and the writing style

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Xenophobia, and Death

shaipanda's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad 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? No

5.0

So important and well done 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, and Confinement

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Murder

bleuennreads_'s review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

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

4.5

I am very happy to have found this graphic novel because I was able to really learn more about a period of history that I didn't know much about.

In this story, the author stages herself, following in the footsteps of her grandmother to learn more about her past and that of her community. She therefore finds herself in the 1940s (this present/past transfer brings a little bit of science fiction to the story which is quite pleasant), sent to a detention camp alongside other Japanese-American citizens (including her grandmother). Kiku will live there for more than a year, which allows us to get a vague idea of ​​the daily life of these people who were unjustly and forcibly detained. The only small negative point that is that I would have liked to know more, but the book is still very interesting and quite light while dealing with an important subject. An ever topical subject : the story takes on the backdrop of Trump's anti-Muslim speeches, allowing this trip to the past to echo the present and alarm about the potential risk of a return to the past (by registering immigrants).

To end on a lighter note, the designs are really beautiful although quite minimalistic. There is also a bit of lesbian romance and even if it's absolutely not the main subject of the book, it's always nice to see representation !

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Murder and Racial slurs