Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory Stanley Kramer You can't open this book

You can't open this book without finding a moment you recognize

where food and family mealtimes were often associated with feelings of personal failure

and like everything else with [Tezuka’s] name on it

The ultimate mimic

often in the middle of a story

Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory Stanley Kramer You can't open this bookBy Solomon J. Brager. Published by HarperCollins. Softcover, 336 pages, Black and white, 2024 A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their American Dream. Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great grandparents escape from Nazi Germany, told over and over until their understanding of self was bound up