Tom Hart’s Rosalie Lightning, on the other hand, tells the story of how Hart and his wife survive their plunge into profound grief after the sudden death of their daughter a few weeks before her second birthday. In Aliceheimer’s, Dana Walrath shares the penultimate chapter of her complicated relationship with her mother, Alice, whose crumbling hold on time and decorum allows old wounds to heal and both sides to gain perspective. These works provide intimate glimpses into the worlds of two families facing very different struggles related to illness and death. THOUGH THE FREQUENTLY QUOTED line from Anna Karenina sets up an easy distinction between happy and unhappy families, the authors of two new graphic memoirs, Aliceheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass and Rosalie Lightning, suggest a third possibility: every family, happy or not, faces tragedy in its own way and, sometimes, makes meaning from the experience.
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