Really great comic, simply drawn and deeply felt, about the author’s experience growing up as one of five daughters in a Muslim family, and moving to Dearborn MI for high school. She goes from being “the girl in the hijab” in school to “just another girl in a hijab,” and has to settle on an identity for herself; she also finds that just being among more Muslims is not a free pass from discrimination.
Tag: genre-graphic
Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom, by Ted Naifeh
Hey, we finally got the third Courtney Crumrin book from the library! In this one Courtney gets to hang with her supposed peers, except they’re just as snobbish and status-conscious as her normal crowd, which means she fits in just as well (or poorly). Of course when trouble happens, she handles things in her own attitude-filled way. I liked the interaction between the kids, and how the adults misconstrued things given the information that they had.
Chicken with Plums, by Marjane Satrapi
Graphic novel about the last few days of the life of Nasser Ali Khan in 1958 Tehran. It begins when he decides to give up on life, and through memories, dreams, and hallucinations, the reader slowly finds out why. The art is simple but the story unspools in a heartbreaking way.