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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
emotional
reflective
sad
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Racism, Antisemitism, War
Minor: Medical content
I enjoyed the artwork and I found myself enraptured by the grandmother's storyline. But overall there wasn't a good, readable flow for me. I say this, admitting that I struggle at times with the graphic medium in general and it's difference from how one reads traditional text.
Graphic memoir day continues..... This one is a little too meta, and a little too unstructured, so it feels like it’s all over the place, without a good focus. It has some good moments, though.
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Great, quick read. As a Jew I enjoyed the small bits of humor that some people wouldn’t get. Not your stereotypical Jewish family like most books, just a badass Bubbe who survived the Nazis and her granddaughter who tells the story.
I have mixed feelings about this book.
I definitely liked the Bubbe portions and was more curious to know about her escape from the Warsaw Ghetto and her life. But this is about Amy's and Sonya's stories as well, in a way, though there is not much you can glean about Sonya from this memoir.
Not too enamored by the artwork too. I liked some pages but overall it was not too engaging.
I definitely liked the Bubbe portions and was more curious to know about her escape from the Warsaw Ghetto and her life. But this is about Amy's and Sonya's stories as well, in a way, though there is not much you can glean about Sonya from this memoir.
Not too enamored by the artwork too. I liked some pages but overall it was not too engaging.
Amy Kurzweil tells the story of 3 generations of women. It's a graphic memoir about mother-daughter relationships, intergenerational trauma, existential doubts, survival of the Holocaust. I loved the way Kurzweil's art allows for meta interruptions of the narrative. She places her story squarely in the tradition of so many other Jewish graphic novelists. The work felt big but accessible. I loved it.
I found this interesting, but graphic memoirs seem to get as much play as biographies in my library. That is to say, not much.
The three threads in this graphic are the stories of three generations of Kurzweil women as they discover and create their stories. Amy's grandmother was able to pass as non-Jewish and so survived the Nazis during WWII. Amy grows up in the US and explores the different cultural and religious options available to her, as regards being Jewish in America. Amy's mother bridges life as a Jew in Europe and the US and returns to the country where she was born during the course of the story.
A good exploration of family dynamics, personality development and coming of age.
The three threads in this graphic are the stories of three generations of Kurzweil women as they discover and create their stories. Amy's grandmother was able to pass as non-Jewish and so survived the Nazis during WWII. Amy grows up in the US and explores the different cultural and religious options available to her, as regards being Jewish in America. Amy's mother bridges life as a Jew in Europe and the US and returns to the country where she was born during the course of the story.
A good exploration of family dynamics, personality development and coming of age.
“Ever since I was a little girl I’ve had this problem, a meta-haunting, a too-awareness of the self, of my own impermanence, my malleability.”
Also, the illustrated MAPS in this memoir! 💕💯
Also, the illustrated MAPS in this memoir! 💕💯
I really enjoyed this. Great illustrations.. quite busy.. but it worked for me! :)