Victory Parade

"A follow-up to her 2012 graphic novel Unterzakhn, Leela Corman’s Victory Parade takes place mainly in Brooklyn in the 1940s. It tracks several Jewish women, including Rose, who works building warships while her husband is at war, and Ruthie, a young German Jewish girl who lost her family back home and finds an outlet for her sorrow and rage in the wrestling ring. A meditation on trauma, the Holocaust, war and its lingering impacts, Victory Parade’s uncomfortably gorgeous images – shot through with stark reds and muddy browns – mingle the surreal alongside the real. Its emotional impact on some well-worn topics is powerful and profound."