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Flying Couch - Ein Graphic Memoir: Eine jüdische Familiengeschichte dreier Frauengenerationen
Amy Kurzweil
3.47 AVERAGE
72 reviews for:
Flying Couch - Ein Graphic Memoir: Eine jüdische Familiengeschichte dreier Frauengenerationen
Amy Kurzweil
3.47 AVERAGE
A very enjoyable memoir in graphic novel form. The author parallels her life with that of her Yiddish grandmother, looking at their struggles for identity and independence though their lives were very different.
"Flying Couch" is a graphic memoir that features a Holocaust survivor's story. This isn't Art Spiegelman's "Maus," though. This is something entirely different, a story of three generations of Jewish women, struggling with their Jewish and professional identities. What does it mean to be a good Jew? An American? How do you make yourself the protagonist of your own story when the stories of your ancestors are so potent and still so alive to you? Amy Kurzweil introduces all of these topics through her illustrations. That she doesn't come up with answers for all of them doesn't take anything away from the accomplishment of this book.
This graphic memoir was a quick and fascinating read. It is the tale of three generations of women, but to be perfectly honest, Bubbe stole the whole show. Amy Kurzwell is talented and gives a nod to the past that got her where she is, but I hardly know anything about her mother except that she is a psychologist and complains about her own mother. The character even complains about her one-dimensional portrayal.
Bubbe's incredible story and larger-than-life personality are all that matters here. And she's so fun to read out loud!
Bubbe's incredible story and larger-than-life personality are all that matters here. And she's so fun to read out loud!
A holocaust memoir, the artist tells her grandmother's story mixed with her own and some of her mom's. An interesting telling and the grandmother is quite a character in modern day.
I liked it. The intersecting stories of three generations of women including bubbe who survived the Holocaust and is quite a character. The mom is not as well developed.
I enjoyed this memoir but the ending made no sense to me.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
reflective
I think my real rating is between a 3 and a 4 somewhere but I'll just put it at a three for now. Of course, I'm NOT making an assessment on anyone's real life narrative in this book. I just thought that the narrative style and art style were both a little bit disjointed. It was sometimes really difficult to follow the train of thought on a page with the combination of narration and dialogue. It was sometimes hard to tell what order to read a page in. And the framing of her story around her grandmother's story didn't quite work for me. It seemed like an attempt at Maus but without the commitment to either story line. But in terms of a different story about Holocaust survival and the generational aftermath, it was quite interesting.
I couldn't finish it. Not the book/story I was expecting.
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For the rest of my review, visit my blog at:
https://youtu.be/Yg_vVWa51pM
Enjoy!