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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
Amy Kurzweil did a great job with portraying a very complex, traumatic and yet very heartfelt web of family history in this Graphic Novel. While the story of her Grandmother is the main focus of the book, I also really enjoyed Amys coming of age as a jewish woman in the US and her way of working trough family history. I would have given it 5 stars if it wasn't for the art style, which wasn't really my favorite, but still matched the book.
medium-paced
In spite of emailing the publicist, I have only received an excerpt from this memoir so my rating is based on a small part of this book.
From what I've seen this is an exciting way of telling the story of the Holocaust from a clear personal experience. The images have a simplistic quality, but they blend well with the text. Sometimes graphic, sometimes touching, but always these images are honest.
It looks like I'll have to wait for the complete experience, but it is one to read.
From what I've seen this is an exciting way of telling the story of the Holocaust from a clear personal experience. The images have a simplistic quality, but they blend well with the text. Sometimes graphic, sometimes touching, but always these images are honest.
It looks like I'll have to wait for the complete experience, but it is one to read.
This is an interesting graphic memoir that I actually got for my daughter a few years ago, but when she moved recently she confessed that she never read it, and likely never would, so I repossessed it. Having read it, I suppose there is stuff there that would appeal to her -- the same stuff I thought she might like when I originally bought it -- but there is also stuff that she probably wouldn't care about. Amy Kurzweil is an artist and a writer, and this memoir details not just her experience growing up with anxiety, but also her relationship with her psychologist mother, and her Holocaust survivor grandmother. It is definitely a rumination on three generations of Jewish women, their struggles and their triumphs. Do they always get along? No. Do they respect one another? Usually. In those ways, they are no different than any other family -- loving and criticizing each other in equal measure, as only families can. I think I found the grandmother's story the most interesting -- and indeed, most of the book is about Amy documenting those stories. She managed to avoid the concentration camps in Hitler's Europe, instead surviving by passing as a Catholic (her Aryan looks helped with that), living in a series of homes and farms. It also describes her life after the war, which we don't hear about a lot -- people scraping to survive in squalid conditions that did not ease for many years, particularly in eastern Europe, which was ravaged by the war in more ways than one. But, Bubbe emerged from that experience a feisty, no-nonsense woman who continues to show the pluck that probably helped her survive. Anyway, this is an evocative story about the lives of Jewish women over almost a century. I'm glad I rescued it from my daughter's recycling pile!
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
I liked the artwork, but the switching back and forth confused me and I just could not get into the story.
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
The holiday season brings families together, for better or worse, leading many of us to face the makeup of our identities across the dining room table. Whether it’s seeing your own mannerisms in your parents, or it’s basking in grandparents’ old stories from before you were born, we can recognize the ways in which our families have shaped our identities. In her graphic memoir, Flying Couch, Amy Kurzweil explores her own identity as a granddaughter, a daughter, an artist, and a Jew.
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I found the format fairly confusing. I enjoyed the stories of the grandmother, but the rest did not interest me. I would not recommend this title.