Publisher's Synopsis
What does it mean to have lived 'successfully'?In search of a better life, the 1950s and 1960s saw a large wave of Greek immigration to Canada. As the granddaughter of Angelo and Vasiliki, who were amongst those making such a journey, my journey into my grandfather's story begins as his memory starts to fade. I seek to capture his story, and instead find it intermingled with my own as I face the questions of what a good life means in my own post-graduation context. This graphic novel auto-ethnography weaves in and out of personal memoir, family history, and anthropological questions of work, as a "successful life" is one that follows a particular trajectory in my family yet is at the same time one that is bound - as all things are - to our sociocultural contexts.How do we come to define our lives as meaningful and, ultimately, how can we look to this as a balm when watching a life reach its end? To the people who gave my life a future, as I lament here, "there is a thank you I don't know how to begin saying". This is my attempt to even begin saying it.
