This is a comics memoir of a Jewish mother and child's persecution and flight in Hungary in the last year of the Second World War.  It is a harsh story of pain and persevering, of suffering and survival against the odds that is written and drawn by the grown child and bracketed by scenes of her own motherhood safely ensconced in the United States.  A unique endeavor from cover to cover, the story is told entirely in rugged pencil drawings that eloquently testify to the strength of its actors.  This attention to matching form and content continues in Tom Devlin's thoughtful design of the book itself.  Holding the book in one's hands, one immediately feels that its origins are in a harsh world filled with privation that is quite alien to the sleek comforts amidst with we comport ourselves in America today. 

While we're on the subject of long-in-the-making sequels, now would be a good time to bring Miriam Katin's follow up memoir.  Her previous work, We Are On Our Own was a memoir of her childhood escape from the Nazis during World War II.  This time around we find Katin struggling to come to terms with her son's decision to move to Berlin, the former center of the Nazi menace and so origin of the trauma at the center of her life, and, needless to say, the lives – and, of course, deaths – of so many others.  Travel with Katin in the vehicle of her expressive, pencil-drawn comics – this time around in full color – as she twice travels from her home in New York to Berlin, first to visit her son and the to attend a museum opening  for a show that features her own artwork.  Get a head start with this PDF preview.

While we're on the subject of long-in-the-making sequels, now would be a good time to bring Miriam Katin's follow up memoir.  Her previous work, We Are On Our Own was a memoir of her childhood escape from the Nazis during World War II.  This time around we find Katin struggling to come to terms with her son's decision to move to Berlin, the former center of the Nazi menace and so origin of the trauma at the center of her life, and, needless to say, the lives – and, of course, deaths – of so many others.  Travel with Katin in the vehicle of her expressive, pencil-drawn comics – this time around in full color – as she twice travels from her home in New York to Berlin, first to visit her son and the to attend a museum opening  for a show that features her own artwork.  Get a head start with this PDF preview.