num_pages: 161
description: 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.
language: English
title: Displacement: A Travelogue
publisher: Fantagraphics