genre: graphic memoir
This is the most disjointed graphic memoir I've ever read. It is about the author's life growing up in Iraq, sort of, but it reads more like comic strips instead of telling a cohesive story. Sometimes the strips go on for several pages but sometimes not and so I had a hard time knowing when one "strip" had ended and when another had begun. I did learn about an Iraq before Saddam, and that stretched my brain a bit. The photographs made for interesting interludes, except that there was no descriptions so we don't know time, place or context and I think that would've added some grounding for me.
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