Letting It Go

Miriam Katin’s Letting It Go (2013–present, Drawn & Quarterly) is a spare, deeply personal graphic memoir that follows the artist as she navigates the quiet upheavals of aging, motherhood, and the lingering shadows of her Holocaust childhood. Over the course of a single issue, Katin’s delicate watercolors and understated storytelling trace her move from New York to Berlin, where she confronts the city’s fraught history and her own family’s past. A poignant meditation on memory and letting go, it stands as a singular, intimate entry in contemporary autobiographical comics.