A review by atomic_tourist
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

I finished Maus II last night around midnight and immediately started crying. The ending was what really broke me, but all throughout the book I was both hooked and depressed. I see what reviewers mean when they say that Spiegelman reimagines the Holocaust narrative, because, wow... What stood out to me is that Maus begins decades after the war. Already, from the beginning, it's a story about his dad's life as a survivor, and in the second installment it also explores Spiegelman's survivor's guilt & dissonance over the difference in his life compared to his father's-- the Holocaust as a family affair. I cannot imagine how difficult it must have been to compile these stories and bring them to life; thank you to Art Spiegelman for such a raw narrative...

On a closing note: I wish we lived in a world where Maus was a work of fiction instead of a memoir. Thinking of those who survived and those who were taken from us, today and always.