A wholly original record of a German woman's struggle with the weight of catastrophic history, Belonging is also a reflection on the responsibility that we all have as inheritors of our countries' pasts. In this highly inventive visual memoir-equal parts graphic novel, family scrapbook, and investigative narrative-Nora Krug draws on letters, archival material, flea market finds, and photographs to attempt to understand what it means to belong. Nora Krug is a German-American author and illustrator whose drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique and A Public Space, and in anthologies published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Simon and Schuster and Chronicle Books.īelonging wrestles with the idea of 'Heimat', the German word for the place that first forms us, where the sensibilities and identity of one generation pass on to the next.
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