Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Displacement by Kiku Hughes

23 reviews

klsreads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This is a sweet story, a mix of fact and fantasy. Kiku writes and illustrates her journey as a mixed-race, queer Japanase-American unearthing her family history in WWII internment camps. (She refers to interment camps as incarceration camps throughout the book, and rightly so). A magic fog transports her back in time to experience the racism and fearmongering about Asian Americans in the 1940's. Kiku is incarcerated in a room next to her grandmother and great-grandparents and follows their life while cultivating her own in the camp. This is a story about alienation from culture, generational trauma, and the moored "otherness" of multiply marginalized identities. It moved a bit slowly at some points, but it's rich with history, and the art is beautiful. Shamefully, I learned a lot from this short graphic novel. It's a beautiful and real tale of resistance and reconnection. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

kaykitty24's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

What a wonderful graphic novel! The writer clearly spent lots of time researching Japanese Incarceration. I appreciated their specificity and commentary about the period was beautifully done. Definitely recommend to anyone! Once again, these stories are so necessary and important to talk about! Thank you, Kiku Hughes, from one hapa to another! 😊💞

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Cancer, Racial slurs, Violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and War

justcallmeemily's review

adventurous emotional informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Racial slurs and Murder

agnesjlopez's review

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, and Death of parent

mel_muses's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This was incredibly well done from the art to the writing and the messages. An essential read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

handful_of_frogs's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Death of parent, War, and Deportation

theabee's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Beautifully and poignantly written and illustrated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Death of parent, and Murder

ktdakotareads's review

informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Hate crime

Moderate: Medical content and Death of parent

Minor: Blood

robinks's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I had a feeling this book would be quite sad and informative about history, but I was surprised by the incorporation of current struggles and recognition of various forms of resistance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Forced institutionalization, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence, Excrement, Police brutality, War, and Deportation

sweetsimplenothing's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Death of parent