Drawn to berlin - Comics Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe

Fitzgerald’s graphic memoir entwines political and personal displacement. Her students draw images of tragic violence and careful optimism: rafts and tanks, flowers and the Eiffel Tower. In her eight years in Germany, Fitzgerald experiences the highs of the creatively hopeful, along with the deep depression of the disillusioned, all while waiting to stumble onto her own glory like the great Modernists before her. In the gigantic plastic bubble that is the refugee center, worlds collide and echo, and her drawings are compassionate and unflinchingly intimate, perfectly visualizing the fantasy of her Bohemia crumbling in a globalized city. It’s about what she finds when helps lost people. Black & white illustrations throughout.