National Book Award National Book Award
Edition 80 (2022)
FictionNonfictionPoetryTranslated LiteratureYoung People's Literature (Children's and Young Adult)
Winners
1 peopleA graphic novel that follows Holocaust survivor Vladek Spiegelman's testimony alongside the author's conversations with his father, Art. By portraying Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, it layers family history, memory, guilt, and generational rupture into a sharply visual account of war's afterlife.
It redraws the shadow of the Holocaust through a son's search through his father's memories.
296 pages
Holocaustfamily historymemorytraumagraphic novelgenerational conflict