num_pages: 224
description: Flying Couch Amy Kurzweils debut tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy weaves her own coming-of-age as a young Jewish artist into the narrative of her mother a psychologist and Bubbe her grandmother a World War II survivor who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile. Captivated by Bubbes story Amy turns to her sketchbooks teaching herself to draw as a way to cope with what she discovers. Entwining the voices and histories of these three wise hilarious and very different women Amy creates a portrait not only of what it means to be part of a family but also of how each generation bears the imprint of the past. Flying Couch uses Bubbes real testimony and her playful idiosyncratic sensibility to investigate the legacy of trauma the power of family stories and the meaning of home. The result is this bold illustrated memoir both an original story of self-discovery and an important entry into the literature of the Holocaust.Flying Couch is perfect. Its perceptive emotionally on point surprising and funny in its details told in an intuitive way thats completely direct and about something that matters. This is an important book. Liana Finck author of The Bintel BriefFlying Couch is a moving intricate story of identity and family history.Ariel Schrag author of Likewise and Awkward and DefinitionI read Flying Couch in one sitting without moving literally laughed and literally cried. Rachel Fershleiser co-editor of the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was PlanningAmy Kurzweil's moving debut is a story of trauma and survival and a search for identity and belonging. Fluctuating in words and images from the bubbly to the intense this graphic memoir exposes the complicated and powerful ways we are shaped by the histories and relationships that anchor us.Tahneer Oksman author of How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?
language: English
title: Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir
publisher: Black Balloon Publishing an imprint of Catapult