Soldier's heart
Subtitle: the campaign to understand my WWII veteran father : a daughter's memoir
By: by Carol Tyler
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781606998960
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; World War, 1939-1945; Family; Family relationships; Veterans; Comic books, strips
Description: The author chronicles her fraught relationship with her father, Charles, a WWII veteran, and how the war affected their lives through both childhood and adulthood. Soldier's heart is also a tribute to servicemen and women, dramatizing the trauma of the war on the Greatest Generation and those who followed. Tyler's ink and watercolor narrative is in turns sprawling and gimlet-eyed: compassionate and enraged. Her father's memories are woven into her own, which span her Catholic, Midwestern childhood; her troubled marriage; her daughter's struggles; and her efforts to care for her aging parents. Tyler's work has an accessible, homemade feel (the organizing metaphor of the book is a photo album with snapshots of Tyler family life), but is a sophisticated work nevertheless.--Adapted from publisher's description.
Notes: Based in part on the author's You'll never know, published by Fantagraphics Books in 3 vols., 2009-2012.
Table of contents: title: A good and decent man; title: Collateral damage; title: Soldier's heart; title: Epilogue.