Letting it go

Miriam Katin was born in Hungary, and her first graphic memoir was about how she and her mother traveled the countryside ahead of the Nazis in World War II. She later immigrated to Israel then the US where she worked in the animation studies at MTV and Disney. This second graphic memoir is about how her adult son wanted her help in getting his Hungarian citizenship and his decision to move to Berlin. Katin still had very strong feelings about Germany and Berlin, but acquiesces and even visits twice, the second time for the opening of an exhibit featuring her art among others. It's a book about coming to terms with the past, both personally and for Germany.

I read Katin's first book several years ago and was impressed with both the show more artwork and the story. Her art is still impressive in this more recent work, but I did not find the story as compelling or cohesive. Nonetheless, it is an interesting work about holding on and letting go, about Holocaust survivors and their families, and about confronting your own biases. show less

Lovely artwork. The story didn't do much for me. Quick read. I read it in an evening.