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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.

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...[T]he book [transforms from] a chronicle of the humorous-in-retrospect hardships she faced into a sort of meditation on aging, of life as a whole thing incorporating past as well as present and Knisley's family story. ... Despite the many travails she faced on her travels, it ends up being a pretty positive experience for all involved...including, of course, the reader.--J. Caleb Mozzocco

Knisley is extraordinarily talented at journal comics, with clean-line, attractive figures and a good eye for summing up moments in scattered illustrations. The overall message, that caretaking for others is an incredibly difficult, exhausting task, should not be surprising, but Knisley s well-selected details brings it home in sympathetic pain, fatigue, and loneliness. It s horrific but important. --Johanna Draper Carlson

In her fourth book, Lucy Knisley deftly conveys the frustration of managing her ailing 'grands' during a maritime excursion, inducing pangs of recognition in any reader who s been around the decaying bodies and psyches of loved ones. What really sets the book apart, however, is Knisley s sparing artwork: Her unhurried lines and gentle watercolors create a show-don t-tell buffet of melancholy.--Abraham Riesman The 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2015

Knisley has a great eye for what makes travel fun: what s different, what's delicious, cool museums, cute kitties, history, even the strange inconveniences. --Gene Ambaum

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Lucy Knisley is a cartoonist and occasional puppeteer, ukulele player, and food/travel writer living in Chicago, IL. She is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Center for Cartoon Studies.

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