'A deep and affecting mix of text and illustration.' This work of stunning craftmanship stands as a testament to speaking out as a necessary first step to healing.' As multilayered as memory, the book intertwines text, photo, graphic art, and thematic complexity into a revelation almost as powerful for readers as it must have been for the author.' Hava Beller, writer and director of The Restless Conscience It is a kaleidoscope of interrupted lives, leading inexorably to its ultimate conclusion.

' Belonging is a heart wrenching, suspenseful and fascinating odyssey that straddles, and seeks to uncover, an uncharted, inaccessible, unfathomable past. Lawrence Weschler, author, among others, of Calamities of Exile and A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers But as an American living through these, our very own years of a seemingly inexorable drift into one's still not quite sure what, I found Krug's achingly realized graphic memoir downright unsettling, for what will our own grandchildren one day make of us and our own everyday compromises and failures to attend?' 'As the Jewish heir of grandparents who themselves had to flee the upsurge of fascism in their German homelands, I found granddaughter Nora Krug's heartrending investigation of her own family's painstakingly occluded history through those years especially moving. Belonging is valuable, readable and, needless to say, highly recommended.'

Krug draws the reader through her family history with the directness of imagery, handwriting and, ultimately, a disquieting direness that has echoes in our American life, right now. 'A page-turning scrapbook/collage of memory, meaning and accountability, Ms. Tim Snyder, author of On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom Nora Krug takes from her German homeland, and then gives to us, a sense of what it is like to be German today, and a guide to how a reckoning with the past can begin.' 'To belong to a place is not to be able to choose what it takes from you. Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and Tribe By going so deeply into her family's history, Krug has in some ways written about us all.' I could not stop reading it, and when I was done, I could not stop thinking about it. ' Belonging is an astoundingly honest book that conducts a devastating-and irresistible-investigation into one family's struggle with the forces of history. Maira Kalman, author of Beloved Dog and My Favorite Things

Ultimately, the only course is not to veil the answers.' She asks the question of how any of us survive our family history. Asking questions and searching for the truth, she will not turn away from the legacy of her family and her country. 'Nora Krug has created a beautiful visual memoir of a horrific time in history.

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