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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
While I applaud Tom Hart for crafting this book, I found it to be hard to follow at parts. I feel bad saying that, but I felt lost in some of the stream-of-consciousness of it all. Hart was most affecting, I believe, when he was most concise.
Amazing and heartfelt memoir about a father losing his young child. There are moments of lightheartedness within this book of grief, loss, and healing. The illustrations draw you into his state of mind throughout the memoir. Excellent read.
Interesting to see that the question of "why" and "where" looms so large for Hart. I experienced the death of a close one very differently. No why or where. Never crossed my mind.
via NYPL - As a dad with two young kids, this is a book I didn't want to read, but felt I had to. I just want to give Tom and Leela a hug and tell them I love them. And I love Rosalie too.
This is a powerful, heartbreaking graphic novel about the sudden, unexplained loss of a child. I suddenly lost a husband, not a child, but I found myself resonating so deeply with the author and his wife. The images and words he uses to describe those first months of sudden loss reverberated in my bones with familiarity and heartbreak. I even found myself being jealous that the pair had each other, when I had to go through my loss alone. But it's clear that they both had their own unique journeys through their grief and in a sense were alone as well. It's an intense read, but I found it very healing.
A friend of mine read this last year and I was deeply intrigued. It's been sitting on my "to read" shelf since but today seemed to be the day.
I don't want to say much but....
This is a beautifully written graphic novel about the loss of a child. It's painful and cathartic, raw and honest. I highly recommend it to everyone.
I don't want to say much but....
This is a beautifully written graphic novel about the loss of a child. It's painful and cathartic, raw and honest. I highly recommend it to everyone.
Tom Hart tells the story of his young daughter's death and his ensuing grief with tremendous sensitivity and grace. I haven't seen many writer-artists attempt this genre -- "graphic memoir" -- and it's hard to imagine many doing so in such a thought-provoking, challenging way. This is a quick, but by no means easy, book to read. The death of a child is an unbearable tragedy, but Hart shows us how he and his wife bear it. Anyone who has felt adrift (literally or metaphorically at sea in a broken boat) following a personal loss will recognize his descriptions of grief and solitude.