A review by ninahuynh
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

challenging dark medium-paced

3.5

Overall, interesting biography. I thought it was unique to use mice as the character avatar, and using other animals to depict the different nationalities. The story itself was slow to medium-paced, I would say, with pages filled with words. I understand that the author may have tried to depict the familial interactions as true to life as possible, but boy do I get annoyed by how Art treats his dad.

Also, the font of the text makes it difficult to discern some words throughout the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Hate crime, Death of parent, Suicide, Body horror, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, War, Antisemitism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Genocide, and Gun violence