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Riad Sattouf continues to recount his childhood in Syria.
Riad Sattouf does a great job at describing his experiences with honesty: school, life in his village, holidays, etc. Even the parts that are violent.
In this installment, the use of the child as a narrator actually increases the emotional weight of some events: assassination of the aunt, a pupil not coming back to school.
I preferred this book to the previous one.

Someone had checked the third one out before #plaguebreak so I only checked out the first two. But they were both fantastic. I enjoyed the artwork and the story. (I hate his father, but his father is pretty unlikeable...) I can't wait to read the rest and I hope he's still working on his fifth and final installment.

#graphicmemoir #authorillustrator

Interesting. Culture shock, once again. The “crime of honor” was horrific. 4⭐️

I‘m speechless. Volume 2 is 1984-1985. I‘m thanking God/the Universe that I was dancing to Madonna at that time, with my rubber bracelets on. Lol

I‘ve just hacked my way through this one and it gets a soft thumbs up 👍 from me. The art, the situations, the insights are all laudable, but the father character gets on my nerves even more than in the last volume- though the main character‘s father worship seems a bit more toned down. The final sequences of the book, with some plot threads coming full circle helps keep the meandering memoir at bay.

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Round two of this awesomeness! #bookstagram #book #bookblogger #bookworm #bengalibookworm #riadsattouf #graphicnovel

This was a lot funnier than part one, BUT it still has the same abrupt, uncomfortable tonal shifts. Riad moves from childhood observations of behavior that appears harmlessly absurd to horrors like honor killings with little warning 😥 A very surreal window into a completely foreign culture, and definitely not for the faint of heart.

These graphic memoirs have me as excited as a kid with a new Harry Potter book! Volume 2 is out in the UK this week & it's excellent!