Victory parade
Call Number
- GRAPHIC NOVEL CORM (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Schocken Books, [2024]
Physical Description
168 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Summary
"One of a group of women working as welders in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Rose Arensberg has fallen in love with a disabled veteran while awaiting the return of her husband, Sam, a soldier in the American army serving in Europe. As we follow the bittersweet, heartbreaking stories of Rose and her fellow Rosie-the-Riveters, we're immersed in the day-to-day challenges of life on the home front as seen through the eyes of these resilient women, as well as through the eyes of Eleanor, Rose's impressionable young daughter, and Ruth, the German Jewish refugee Rose has taken into their home. Ruth's desperate attempt to exorcise the nightmare of growing up in pre-war Nazi Germany takes her into the world of professional women wrestlers--with devastating consequences. And Sam's encounters with the horrors of a liberated concentration camp follow him home to Brooklyn in the form of terrifying flashbacks that will leave him scarred forever."--
Notes
"Portions of this book originally appeared, in different form, in Tablet in 2017 and in The Believer in Spring 2018 and Summer 2019."--Title page verso.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Women wrestlers > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Women employees > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Psychic trauma > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Jews > United States > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Comic books, strips, etc.