Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
by Solomon J. Brager
(Short review because I don't wanna forget to review, maybe more later!)
Really really really really really good and necessary. The connection between German colonial violence abroad and how it got brought home is just---I never have learned about that anywhere else, and it makes sense of a lot of things??
The star off is mostly because of some layout and formatting issues. On a handful of pages I couldn't figure out in what order to read the panels, or which words went with which panel, which is one of the most basic things an editor should be flagging. It's also not as high resolution as a frequent graphic novel reader would expect, and there was something a little weird about the margins, like this was a text book that happened to just have images on every page - I have to look back at it.