It Won't Always Be Like This
An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian fathers new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar countryfrom the award-winning author of I Was Their American Dream.
What a joy it is to read Malaka Gharibs It Wont Always Be Like This, to have your heart expertly broken and put back together within the space of a few panels, to have your wonder in the world restored by her electric mind.Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Book Riot
Its hard enough to figure out boys, beauty, and being cool when youre young, but even harder when youre in a country where you dont understand the language, culture, or social norms.
Nine-year-old Malaka Gharib arrives in Egypt for her annual summer vacation abroad and assumes it'll be just like every other vacation she's spent at her dad's place in Cairo. But her father shares news that changes everything: He has remarried. Over the next fifteen years, as she visits her father's growing family summer after summer, Malaka must reevaluate her place in his life. All that on top of maintaining her coolness!
Malaka doesn't feel like she fits in when she visits her dad--she sticks out in Egypt and doesn't look anything like her fair-haired half siblings. But she adapts. She learns that Nirvana isn't as cool as Nancy Ajram, that there's nothing better than a Fanta and a melon-mint hookah, and that her new stepmother, Hala, isn't so different from Malaka herself.
It Wont Always Be Like This is a touching time capsule of Gharibs childhood memorieseach summer a fleeting moment in timeand a powerful reflection on identity, relationships, values, family, and what happens when it all collides.
What a joy it is to read Malaka Gharibs It Wont Always Be Like This, to have your heart expertly broken and put back together within the space of a few panels, to have your wonder in the world restored by her electric mind.Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Book Riot
Its hard enough to figure out boys, beauty, and being cool when youre young, but even harder when youre in a country where you dont understand the language, culture, or social norms.
Nine-year-old Malaka Gharib arrives in Egypt for her annual summer vacation abroad and assumes it'll be just like every other vacation she's spent at her dad's place in Cairo. But her father shares news that changes everything: He has remarried. Over the next fifteen years, as she visits her father's growing family summer after summer, Malaka must reevaluate her place in his life. All that on top of maintaining her coolness!
Malaka doesn't feel like she fits in when she visits her dad--she sticks out in Egypt and doesn't look anything like her fair-haired half siblings. But she adapts. She learns that Nirvana isn't as cool as Nancy Ajram, that there's nothing better than a Fanta and a melon-mint hookah, and that her new stepmother, Hala, isn't so different from Malaka herself.
It Wont Always Be Like This is a touching time capsule of Gharibs childhood memorieseach summer a fleeting moment in timeand a powerful reflection on identity, relationships, values, family, and what happens when it all collides.
Auteur | | Malaka Gharib |
Taal | | Engels |
Type | | Paperback |
Categorie | | Mens & Maatschappij |