King of King Court: a graphic novel memoir about intergenerational trauma in Western Mass
by Mark Frauenfelder from on (#4MZX3)
King of King Court is "a memoir that is both devastating and restrained in detailing Travis Dandro's childhood growing up in Western Massachusetts with an addicted and unstable father and a mother incapable of keeping him at bay," Julia Pohl-Miranda Drawn and Quarterly says. "What's such a gut-punch about this book is how revealing it is about the everyday slog of having mentally ill or abusive family members, the seeming inevitability of intergenerational trauma repeating itself."
Drawn and Quarterly kindly gave me several pages from King of King Court to run here:
