68 pages • 2 hours read
Jarrett KrosoczkaHey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2018A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Essay Topics
Jarrett Krosoczka’s developing love of art is a running theme throughout this graphic memoir. How do you see the germ of this story developing in the stories he tells about how he learned to make comics? How is his art-making related to the way he makes meaning from the events of his life?
The artist Jarrett often writes his adult thoughts over pictures of his younger self doing things unrelated to his grown-up ideas. What effect does this juxtaposition have on your understanding of the story?
