Soldier's heart : the campaign to understand my WWII veteran father : a daughter's memoir

Tyler, Carol (author,, illustrator.). Tyler, Carol You'll never know. (Added Author).

Summary: 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. Soldier's heart 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). --Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 160699896X : PAP
ISBN: 9781606998960 : PAP
Physical Description: 362 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 22 x 27 cm
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Publisher: Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015