There's a lot to take in, and with its scrapbook abundance, the book can be visually challenging-particularly when Krug deliberately fades her lettering to express hollowed out feelings. Her uncle's school essays, which are filled with ugly anti-Semitic propaganda, are disturbing, as are flea market finds like Hitler Youth toys that include a nasty caricature of a Jew. It is richly illustrated with cartoons, family photographs and letters, handwritten text, and archival German documents annotated in English by Krug.
Belonging is both emotionally and graphically complex. In its searching honesty and multi-layered, visual and verbal storytelling, it packs the power of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and David Small's Stitches. Pick up Nora Krug's reverberant graphic memoir, Belonging, and be prepared to lose yourself for hours.
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