{"product_id":"pantheon-graphic-libraryisbn-9780805243445","title":"Pantheon Graphic Library","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe author of the Eisner-nominated graphic novel \u003ci\u003eUnterzakhn \u003c\/i\u003enow gives us a heart-wrenching, phantasmagorical tale of love, loss, and trauma both personal and global, set during World War II in Brooklyn, New York, and in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of a group of women working as welders in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Rose Arensberg has fallen in love with a disabled veteran while awaiting the return of her husband, Sam, a soldier in the American army serving in Europe. As we follow the bittersweet, heartbreaking stories of Rose and her fellow Rosie-the-Riveters, we're immersed in the day-to-day challenges of life on the home front as seen through the eyes of these resilient women, as well as through the eyes of Eleanor, Rose’s impressionable young daughter, and Ruth, the German Jewish refugee Rose has taken into their home.\u003cbr\u003e      Ruth’s desperate attempt to exorcise the nightmare of growing up in pre-war Nazi Germany takes her into the world of professional women wrestlers—with devastating consequences. And Sam’s encounters with the horrors of a liberated concentration camp follow him home to Brooklyn in the form of terrifying flashbacks that will leave him scarred forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e     Victory Parade\u003c\/i\u003e paints a deeply affecting portrait of how individuals and civilizations process mass trauma. Magnificently drawn by Leela Corman, it’s an Expressionist journey through the battlefields of the human heart and the mass graves of genocide.\u003cb\u003eA Most Anticipated Book: \u003ci\u003eComics DC Blog\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Comics Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGay League\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHadassah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistorical Novel Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLa Cliotheque\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePaltrocast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReading Reality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSmash Pages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDallas Voice\u003c\/i\u003e’s LGBTQ Pride Reading List for 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Visually arresting . . . Corman’s story inhabits the comics medium so fully that its formal ingenuity may not be immediately apparent . . . A moving map of war and genocide’s labyrinthine consequences for survivors across generations.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The finest work yet from an always formidable artist, this is a revelatory meditation on the cost of survival.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “When Leela Corman sets out to make a graphic novel, she makes a graphic novel built to win awards. . . . fascinating work from an incredible talent.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Comic Book Herald, “Favorite Graphic Novels of 2024”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e“A demanding, unsettling, at times celebratory, and provocative story.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eGay League\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Corman’s figures are striking…Vivid watercolors enhance the uncanny atmosphere, hues spilling and pooling into visceral shapes and strata…Savage and soulful.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Kirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A stun­ning sto­ry that demon­strates the ways in which Holo­caust trauma’s reach in Amer­i­ca frac­tures those it touches.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Jewish Book Council\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fill[s] a void in the public’s concerning lack of awareness on the [Holocaust].”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eDallas Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Striking . . . with \u003ci\u003eVictory Parade\u003c\/i\u003e, she wants us to remember what tyrannical supremacy and the murderous maligning of the racial Other actually mean – and warns us against going on with our lives as though nothing were amiss while the humanity of others is being denied.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—International Journal of Comic Art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is art at an intense level, of a most captivating nature. The intent is to provoke. No middle ground to this. And the results are extraordinary . . .\u003ci\u003eVictory Parade\u003c\/i\u003e . . . will take you on an unforgettable journey.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Comics Grinder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eVictory Parade\u003c\/i\u003e paints a deeply affecting portrait of how individuals and civilizations process mass trauma.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eGay League\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLEELA CORMAN\u003c\/b\u003e is a painter, educator, and graphic-novel creator, working in the realm of diaspora Ashkenazi culture and third-generation restorative work. 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