Soldier's Heart

In the wake of Alison Bechdel s Fun Home and Art Spiegelman s Maus comes cartoonist Carol Tyler s multigenerational graphic memoir, You ll Never Know. The author chronicles her fraught relationship with her father, Charles, a WWII veteran, and how the war affected their lives through both childhood [...]
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In the wake of Alison Bechdel s Fun Home and Art Spiegelman s Maus comes cartoonist Carol Tyler s multigenerational graphic memoir, You ll Never Know. 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. You ll Never Know 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), You ll Never Know is a sophisticated graphic work about war, love, and loss."