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A review by booklistqueen
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Art Spiegelman won a Pulitzer Prize for this memoir, detailing Spiegelman's interviews with his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor. Often published together, Maus was written as two separate graphic novels. In the first edition, Vladek recalls his life as a Polish Jew, trying to survive as the restrictions became tighter and tighter, moving to the ghetto, and then going into hiding. In Maus II, Vladek and his wife Anja are both sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. A must read, Maus brilliantly tells not only a horrifying tale of the Holocaust but also shows what the author experienced as a child of the survivors.