(RHINEBECK, N.Y.) – New York Times best-selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley, a native of Rhinebeck, will preview and sign copies of her new graphic novel, Displacement, at Oblong Books & Music on Friday, January 16, 2015, at 7pm.

In her graphic memoirs, Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, not unlike writer Lena Dunham (“Girls”). In the latest installment of her graphic travelogue series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over her ailing grandparents on a cruise. (The book’s watercolors evoke the ocean that surrounds them.)

In a book that is part graphic memoir, part travelogue, and part family history, Knisley not only tries to connect with her grandparents, but to reconcile their younger and older selves. She is aided in her quest by her grandfather’s WWII memoir, which is excerpted. Readers will identify with Knisley’s frustration, her fears, her compassion, and her attempts to come to terms with mortality, as she copes with the stress of travel complicated by her grandparents’ frailty.

Lucy Knisley is a cartoonist and occasional puppeteer, ukulele player, and food/travel writer living in Chicago, Ill. She is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Center for Cartoon Studies.

Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY.