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Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home

Nora Krug

"A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history"--

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyKeyword Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismAward Category: National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and Autobiography -> BiographyMemoir & Personal HistoryIntellectual BiographyMigration & Diaspora

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and AutobiographyMajor2018WinnerSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Nora Krug78%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Nazi Germany62%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Nora Krug’s effort to confront the hidden truths of her family’s wartime past in Nazi Germany is presented as a way to understand the forces shaping her life, generation, and history.

    Model confidence 60%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    32 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 70%.