A review by goldentortoisebeetle
7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga by David A. Robertson
challenging
dark
Another gut punch from this author/illustrator duo. I think this is a compilation of 4 issues of a comic. It's a great length- sometimes the stories from this publishing house feel too short. This one is not rushed. It takes its time to let you feel the emotions.
Three centuries. Seven generations of people. Blood memory is strong; intergenerational trauma is also strong. We watch the characters struggle deeply in each generation. They lose things they can never recover. They grieve their whole lives. They seek so desperately to heal but in recent generations have lost hope altogether. They carry the pain forward.
The unsung hero of this story is the mom. She tells the stories of the ancestors. She moves her husband and son forward into healing by refusing to let them go. I want to hear her story.
Three centuries. Seven generations of people. Blood memory is strong; intergenerational trauma is also strong. We watch the characters struggle deeply in each generation. They lose things they can never recover. They grieve their whole lives. They seek so desperately to heal but in recent generations have lost hope altogether. They carry the pain forward.
The unsung hero of this story is the mom. She tells the stories of the ancestors. She moves her husband and son forward into healing by refusing to let them go. I want to hear her story.