Family Fiction.

Modan, Rutu; Property, The (Book); Graphic novels; Jews; Jewish families; Grandparent-grandchild relationships -- Fiction; Actus Tragicus (Company); Exit Wounds (Book : Modan); Fiction

The article presents a profile of Israeli author and alternative comic artist Rutu Modan, whose graphic novel "The Property," is scheduled for release in June 2013. "The Property" is inspired by Modan's family history, particularly her Jewish grandmother's attitude towards her home country of Poland. Other topics include the book's treatment of the grandmother-granddaughter relationship, her founding of the comics collective Actus Tragicus in Israel, and her 2008 graphic novel "Exit Wounds."