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The stunning story, along with Katin's gorgeous pencil work, immediately garnered acclaim in the comics world and beyond. With \u003ci\u003eLetting It Go\u003c\/i\u003e, Katin's storytelling and artistic skills allow her to explore a voice and perspective like no other found in the medium.itimate child in order to escape the Nazis. The stunning story, along with Katin's gorgeous pencil work, immediately garnered acclaim in the comics world and beyond. With \u003ci\u003eLetting It Go\u003c\/i\u003e, Katin's storytelling and artistic skills allow her to explore a voice and perspective like no other found in the medium.itimate child in order to escape the Nazis. The stunning story, along with Katin's gorgeous pencil work, immediately garnered acclaim in the comics world and beyond. 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With her father off fighting for the Hungarian army and the German troops quickly approaching, Katin and her mother are forced to flee to the countryside after faking their deaths. Leaving behind all of their belongings and loved ones, and\u003cbr\u003eunable to tell anyone of their whereabouts, they disguise themselves as a Russian servant and illegitimate child, while literally staying a few steps ahead of the German soldiers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Are on Our Own \u003c\/i\u003eis a woman's attempt to rebuild her earliest childhood trauma in order to come to an understanding of her lifelong questioning of faith. Katin's faith is shaken as she wonders how God could create and tolerate such a wretched world, a world of fear and hiding, bargaining and theft, betrayal and abuse. The complex and horrific experiences on the run are difficult for a child to understand, and as a child, Katin saw them with the simple longing, sadness, and\u003cbr\u003ecuriosity she felt when her dog ran away or a stranger made her mother cry. 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Struggling to reunite with Miriam s father who has been conscripted to the Hungarian army, mother and daughter contemplate God, wondering how He could allow such destruction. Poetic words of the Torah combine with images of war as Miriam examines the theological dilemma both victims as well as survivors of the Shoah. When Miriam and her mother hide with a winemaker, they soothe their nerves with the tonic, reciting  God is red. God is in the glass.  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