"As the Jewish heir of grandparents who themselves had to flee the upsurge of fascism in their German homelands, I found granddaughter Nora Krug's heartrending investigation of her own family's painstakingly occluded history through those years especially moving. Belonging is valuable, readable and, needless to say, highly recommended." Krug draws the reader through her family history with the directness of imagery, handwriting and, ultimately, a disquieting direness that has echoes in our American life, right now. "A page-turning scrapbook/collage of memory, meaning and accountability, Ms.
Tim Snyder, author of On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom Nora Krug takes from her German homeland, and then gives to us, a sense of what it is like to be German today, and a guide to how a reckoning with the past can begin." "To belong to a place is not to be able to choose what it takes from you. Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and Tribe By going so deeply into her family's history, Krug has in some ways written about us all."
I could not stop reading it, and when I was done, I could not stop thinking about it. " Belonging is an astoundingly honest book that conducts a devastating-and irresistible-investigation into one family's struggle with the forces of history. Maira Kalman, author of Beloved Dog and My Favorite Things Ultimately, the only course is not to veil the answers." She asks the question of how any of us survive our family history. Asking questions and searching for the truth, she will not turn away from the legacy of her family and her country. 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."Nora Krug has created a beautiful visual memoir of a horrific time in history. Yet she knew little about her own family?s involvement though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. * 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. Read Or Download Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home By Nora Krug Full Pages.
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