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My grandmother passed away last weekend. I went book shopping cause she loved to read and is probably where I got it from. Unintentionally got a graphic novel about a grandmother and her family. 😌

📕 The Property by Rutu Modan
🖊 Pym, Barbara
📺 Prime Suspect (starring Helen Mirren)
🎤 Prince
🎶 Pretty - The Cranberries

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Heartbreaking in many respects, jaw-dropping in others (how can humans be so insensitive?!), but overall a story of gaining a better understanding of our family.

Gran looks out the window of the cab and sees the Warsaw of her youth.

Starting to wrap up #WITmonth with two graphic novels from Modan, both with a family mystery of sorts, nice full color illustrations and okay stories. The Property (tagged) story was better than Exit Wounds IMO.

Beautiful graphic novel about a Jewish woman and her granddaughter returning to Warsaw to reclaim their family's pre-war property. However events take off in an unexpected direction almost immediately. Very moving storytelling ❤

I love Israeli artist Rutu Modan's bold lines and bright colors. Even more stunning is her skill in quietly, organically interweaving the personal stories of individual aspirations and heartbreaks within the wider context of intergenerational family secrets and broad cultural heritage of war and race.

This is a lovely story of a prickly grandmother and her granddaughter travelling back to Poland from Israel under the guise of reclaiming a family property lost during WWII. However, there is more to this story as old family secrets are slowly revealed. The author resists the urge to tie the story up with a neat bow, something I appreciate as life is rarely about about simple happy ever afters.

Rutu Modan's fabulous book is about family, war, looted assets, and the complexities of life. While my personal quest is for looted art and not real property, her exploration and descriptions of navigating both legal and emotional issues rang so true to my own experiences.
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An intricate+personal tale that illuminates the complex legal, emotional, and psychological challenges plaguing families in the aftermath of the WWII, challenges that persist even now. The form of the graphic novel allows Modan to explore this muddled yet highly nuanced story both textually+visually