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Angeline Antonakos Boswell
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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.
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