* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * *
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times The Boston Globe San Francisco Chronicle
NPR Comics Beat The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal This
ingenious reckoning with the past (The New York Times) by award-winning artist Nora Krug
investigates the hidden truths of her family's wartime history in Nazi Germany. 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. Yet she knew little about her
own family's involvement though all four grandparents lived through the war they never spoke
of it. After 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. 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. 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). A 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).
