Heimat

Seventeen years after leaving Germany for the US, Nora Krug decided she couldn’t know who she was without confronting where she’d come from. In Heimat, she documents her journey investigating the lives of her family members under the Nazi regime, visually charting her way back to a country still tainted by war. Beautifully illustrated and lyrically told, Heimat is a powerful meditation on the search for cultural identity, and the meaning of history and home.

If you liked Fun Home, Persepolis, or Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, we think you’ll find a read to dive into with Krug’s Heimat! “Nora Krug has created a beautiful visual memoir of a horrific time in history. A time that torments us to this day. Asking questions and searching for the truth, she will not turn away from the legacy of her family and her country.”
—Maira Kalman

“A page-turning scrapbook/collage of memory, meaning and accountability…Heimat is valuable, readable and, needless to say, highly recommended.”
— Chris Ware