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Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory | Solomon J. Brager
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A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their American Dream. Solomon Brager grew up with accounts (…more)
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Clare-Dragonfly
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I suppose it‘s appropriate with such a meta, self-referential book that I can‘t think of how to review it without using its own topics. It‘s a heavy subject. It‘s a complex punch of a book. Brager looks into his own family history of escaping the Holocaust, trying to fill in gaps in both their personal history and world history. It has me thinking a lot about my own family‘s escape from Europe. Who didn‘t get out? I know nothing about them.

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Clare-Dragonfly
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I appreciate that Brager manages to fit some relevant humor into a very, well, heavy book!

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Lauredhel
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And with Heavyweight having an airplane on the cover, February is my very first full card for I Spy Bingo 2024!

#ISpyBingo @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

LiseWorks Nice 10mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! I've been working all 12 cards all year and haven't cleared one yet! 😂 10mo
Lauredhel @TheAromaofBooks I'm working on all 12 too! The race is on 10mo
Read4life Yay!!! 🤓 10mo
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Lauredhel
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Finished this graphic memoir dealing with colonialism, the Holocaust, and generational trauma.

#Pantone2024 #readingchallenge

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Lauredhel
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This historical graphic memoir is a lot. 160 pages in: Solomon Brager explores their family history tracing back through the holocaust and beyond. They situate those atrocities in a long history of colonialism, prejudice, and human rights abuses, with histories from the European invasions of Africa, and tracing forward to today, including issues around Zionism and transphobia. They give time and space to the complicated feelings that arise.

Clare-Dragonfly I have this on hold. Definitely looking forward to it! 10mo
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Lauredhel
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New Libby borrow.

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