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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
A heartbreaking visual memoir on the sudden loss of their beloved child...it was well-written and engaging. A real eye-opener into the world of losing a child! My heart broke seeing the photo of Rosalie at the end of the book. It just kind of set it all into stone...the reality of the story.
A father expresses his grief through this graphic novel after the death of his two-year old daughter. Be warned - Kleenex needed!
A masterpiece.
This intense graphic memoir is about how the author and his wife deal with the sudden death of their almost-2-year-old daughter. I had to take several breaks while reading it.
Compassionate, loving, and uses the comics form to tremendous effect.
This intense graphic memoir is about how the author and his wife deal with the sudden death of their almost-2-year-old daughter. I had to take several breaks while reading it.
Compassionate, loving, and uses the comics form to tremendous effect.
Sometimes reading grief memoirs can be a cathartic experience and other times they can open up a "capacious hole" in ones heart.
I never expected to have my heart broken by a graphic novel... What a beautiful tribute to a little girl.
This was hard to read.
I can't really think of what to say (I've never lost a child), except: Tom Hart. I'm sorry you had to go through that. It's an awful thing that no one should have to live through. But you did. I liked your book. The ending is very hopeful, so I'm hoping that that's what you're feeling about the future.
I can't really think of what to say (I've never lost a child), except: Tom Hart. I'm sorry you had to go through that. It's an awful thing that no one should have to live through. But you did. I liked your book. The ending is very hopeful, so I'm hoping that that's what you're feeling about the future.
How do you review an accounting of someone else's grief? It's a beautiful, heartfelt book. I've never lost a child the way Tom and Leela did, but their experience of grief in the wake of terrible, unexpected trauma is depicted here in a raw, honest way. There isn't much else I can say about this book, except that you should read it if you are a human person.
I would pair this with Fun Home, Stitches, and Mother, Come Home (three of my all time favorites). So stunning, so wrenching, so REAL. Captures perception (both visual and emotional) in a way that prose rarely does, and which feels more akin to poetry or meditation. We read sad things so we can feel a bit of the lift afterwards as well...
A very emotional graphic novel. This book is an homage from the author to his dead daughter that die when she was almost 2 years old. All in simplicity the author goes through the even and his grief process. Very touching and beautiful at the same time. Sad but worth reading!