Displacement

By Lucy Knisley and Carol Christo

Book Overview

In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic travelogue series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over her ailing grandparents on a cruise. (The book's watercolors evoke the ocean that surrounds them.) In a book that is part graphic memoir, part travelogue, and part family history, Knisley not only tries to connect with her grandparents, but to reconcile their younger and older selves. She is aided in her quest by her grandfather's WWII memoir, which is excerpted. Readers will identify with Knisley's frustration, her fears, her compassion, and her attempts to come to terms with mortality, as she copes with the stress of travel complicated by her grandparents' frailty.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606998102
• ISBN13: 9781606998106
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Very touching

Great graphic novel about a twenty-something providing care for her grandparents with dementia and the helplessness felt when others downplay the situation. Really moving experience that drew me in and gave me feels.