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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."
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I really liked reading Displacement. As someone who has a lot of experience volunteering in nursing homes (and helping with my own elderly grandparents) I can appreciate how difficult it is to take care of the elderly, especially when they don't recognize you or the situations they sometimes get themselves into. I like that the author was very honest about her feelings and struggles. My favorite part was that she interspersed her own story with the her grandfather's memoir.