Soldier's Heart : : the Campaign to Understand my Wwii Veteran Father : a Daughter's Memoir
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Call Number: Adult Graphic Novel / Tyler, Carol
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I. A good and decent man -- II. Collateral damage -- III. Soldier's heart -- IV. Epilogue.
The author chronicles her fraught relationship with her father, Charles, a WWII veteran, and how the war affected their lives through both childhood and adulthood. Soldier's heart is also a tribute to servicemen and women, dramatizing the trauma of the war on the Greatest Generation and those who followed. Tyler's ink and watercolor narrative is in turns sprawling and gimlet-eyed: compassionate and enraged. Her father's memories are woven into her own, which span her Catholic, Midwestern childhood; her troubled marriage; her daughter's struggles; and her efforts to care for her aging parents. Even though Tyler's work has an accessible, homemade feel (the organizing metaphor of the book is a photo album with snapshots of Tyler family life). Publisher,
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PUBLISHED
Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: 362 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 x 27 cm.
Language: English
Format: Graphic Novel
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781606998960
160699896X
SUBJECTS
Tyler, Carol -- Family.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Family relationships -- United States.
Fathers and daughters -- United States.
Graphic novels.
Autobigraphies.