5/13/2023 0 Comments Belonging by nora krugA highly inventive, “thoughtful, engrossing” ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune ) graphic memoir, Belonging “packs the power of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David Small’s Stitches ” (NPR.org). In this extraordinary quest, “Krug erases the boundaries between comics, scrapbooking, and collage as she endeavors to make sense of 20th-century history, the Holocaust, her German heritage, and her family's place in it all” ( The Boston Globe ). The Common Reading Program at Appalachian State proudly announces the 2021-2022 book selection: Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. Born three decades after the Holocaust, she traces the stubborn. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it.Īfter twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Belonging A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths. Belonging, Krugs new visual memoir, is a mazy and ingenious reckoning with the past. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany.
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