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  • Published: 7 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9780805243444
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $59.99

Victory Parade





AN NPR, WASHINGTON POST, GUARDIAN, AND PW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The author of the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Unterzakhn now gives us a heart-wrenching, phantasmagorical tale of love, loss, and trauma both personal and global, set during World War II in Brooklyn, New York, and in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.

EISNER AWARD NOMINEE • AN NPR, WASHINGTON POST, GUARDIAN, AND PW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The author of the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Unterzakhn now gives us a heart-wrenching, phantasmagorical tale of love, loss, and trauma both personal and global, set during World War II in Brooklyn, New York, and in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.

One of a group of women working as welders in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Rose Arensberg has fallen in love with a disabled veteran while awaiting the return of her husband, Sam, a soldier in the American army serving in Europe. As we follow the bittersweet, heartbreaking stories of Rose and her fellow Rosie-the-Riveters, we're immersed in the day-to-day challenges of life on the home front as seen through the eyes of these resilient women, as well as through the eyes of Eleanor, Rose’s impressionable young daughter, and Ruth, the German Jewish refugee Rose has taken into their home.
      Ruth’s desperate attempt to exorcise the nightmare of growing up in pre-war Nazi Germany takes her into the world of professional women wrestlers—with devastating consequences. And Sam’s encounters with the horrors of a liberated concentration camp follow him home to Brooklyn in the form of terrifying flashbacks that will leave him scarred forever.
    Victory Parade paints a deeply affecting portrait of how individuals and civilizations process mass trauma. Magnificently drawn by Leela Corman, it’s an Expressionist journey through the battlefields of the human heart and the mass graves of genocide.

  • Published: 7 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9780805243444
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $59.99

About the author

LEELA CORMAN

LEELA CORMAN has illustrated books on subjects ranging from urban gardening to the history of the skirt, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, on WNET/Thirteen, and in The Boston Phoenix, Lilith, Bust, and Tikkun. She studied painting, printmaking, and illustration at Massachusetts College of Art. Leela is also a professional belly dancer. Her radio show, "Ecstacy to Frenzy" airs weekly on GROWRadio. She lives in Florida.

Visit Leela: http://www.leelacorman.com.

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Praise for Victory Parade

"Victory Parade is a fever-dream of love and vengeance, war and rage and longing and women’s wrestling. How in the world did Corman ever imagine this gorgeously composed book into being, especially in the way it builds so carefully, only to explode into jagged modernist shards at the end. What a marvel.” —Lauren Groff, author of Matrix

“Corman’s work expertly pairs elegance and brutality in an intergenerational cry for existence. Often floating or sinking or both, Victory Parade pulls us through what it means to survive each day, nurturing a fire in the name of lives stolen to genocide and indifference.” —Nate Powell, author of Save It for Later and illustrator of the March trilogy

“Just read Victory Parade, and now I have no words. The story is so rich, in the end I was crying. This book is a monolith; it is condensed pain and a great body of literature.” —Ulli Lust, author of Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life

"Victory Parade is a fever-dream of love and vengeance, war and rage and longing and women’s wrestling. How in the world did Corman ever imagine this gorgeously composed book into being, especially in the way it builds so carefully, only to explode into jagged modernist shards at the end. What a marvel.” —Lauren Groff, author of Matrix

“Corman’s work expertly pairs elegance and brutality in an intergenerational cry for existence. Often floating or sinking or both, Victory Parade pulls us through what it means to survive each day, nurturing a fire in the name of lives stolen to genocide and indifference.” —Nate Powell, author of Save It for Later and illustrator of the March trilogy

“Just read Victory Parade, and now I have no words. The story is so rich, in the end I was crying. This book is a monolith; it is condensed pain and a great body of literature.” —Ulli Lust, author of Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life

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