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.

Author: Lucy Knisley
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 02/08/2015
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781606998106
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2014
Publishers Weekly 12/15/2014
Booklist 03/01/2015 pg. 32
Library Journal 03/15/2015 pg. 88

About the Author
Knisley, Lucy: - 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.