Reviews - Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir

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Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir

This graphic memoir was intense and I cried. It's a story about losing a child, and I don't even have kids but had to close it and take a deep breath every so many pages. This father's grief fills up every page with beautiful illustrations, metaphors and symbols. Tom Hart is brutally honest about what he went through when he and his wife Leela lost Rosalie. This is a graphic novel that anyone would appreciate because it's so deeply human. I would recommend to any adult, especially those who would not ordinarily pick up a graphic novel.

erine's review

I think this is the second book I haven't been able to review because of the topic. How do you "rate" someone's grief? I don't think you can. And this book is almost a literal representation of one couple's journey through their grief after the sudden death of their daughter. On one level, this story is terrifying to me because I want to know exactly what happened before - anything I could do to prevent a similar occurrence from happening to my own child. And yet, what does it matter? Sudden death is exactly that: tragic, unpreventable. Blame is useless and unproductive. The best compliment I can give this story is that it takes you along their journey.

girrllie's review

5.0

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

The first graphic novel that I’ve ever sobbed through. Twice. Unexpectedly beautiful even knowing going into it that it’s about the death of his daughter. It still caught me unawares.

kirstenrose22's review

4.0

It's difficult to know what to say - this is well done and hard to read and hard to process.

blairmahoney's review

5.0

A book like this written out of raw pain at the loss of a daughter has no right to be such a technical masterpiece as well, but this one is. Beautifully constructed and heartbreaking.