Victory Parade
Victory Parade by Leela Corman, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on April 2, 2024, is a graphic novel that explores themes of love, loss, and trauma during World War II. Set against the backdrop of Brooklyn and the Buchenwald concentration camp, the narrative follows Rose Arensberg, a welder at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as she navigates her feelings for a disabled veteran while awaiting her husband’s return from the war. The story delves into the lives of Rose and her fellow Rosie-the-Riveters, highlighting their resilience amid the challenges of life on the home front.
Readers will find a poignant portrayal of personal and collective trauma through the experiences of Rose, her daughter Eleanor, and Ruth, a German Jewish refugee. As Ruth confronts her past in Nazi Germany, her journey leads her into the world of professional women wrestlers, revealing the devastating impact of her history. Additionally, Sam’s return from the war brings haunting flashbacks from his time at a liberated concentration camp, illustrating the lasting scars of conflict. With 176 pages of striking illustrations, Victory Parade offers a profound exploration of how individuals and societies cope with the aftermath of trauma.
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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.
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