Maus is the gripping biography of the author's father told through the medium of a graphic novel.

The novel's subject, Vladek Spiegelman, was a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor and the story moves between his life in Poland before and during the Second World War and his later life in the Rego Park neighborhood of New York City.

This work has won a Pulitzer Prize. It's worth taking the time to read it and find out why.