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Art Spiegelman

If the Pulitzer Prize does not convince you to read Art Spiegelman’s narrative of his dad’s survival of the Holocaust, then consider the persuasive examples and Spiegelman’s engaging dialog. We start in 1978, together with Art trying to conquer the tense relationship with his father Vladek, who describes how he survived Auschwitz. The narrative is fable-like, together with Jews depicted as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs, and Americans as dogs.