It Won't Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir by Gharib, Malaka
It Won't Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir by Gharib, Malaka

It Won't Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir

An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family, forging...
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Author: Malaka Gharib
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It Won't Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir by Gharib, Malaka

It Won't Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir

$45.28
It Won't Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir by Gharib, Malaka

It Won't Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir

$45.28
Author: Malaka Gharib
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country--from the award-winning author of I Was Their American Dream.

"What a joy it is to read Malaka Gharib's It Won't 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

It's hard enough to figure out boys, beauty, and being cool when you're young, but even harder when you're in a country where you don't 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 Won't Always Be Like This is a touching time capsule of Gharib's childhood memories--each summer a fleeting moment in time--and a powerful reflection on identity, relationships, values, family, and what happens when it all collides.

Author: Malaka Gharib
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 09/20/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.54w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781984860293


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/22/2022
Booklist 09/15/2022 pg. 40
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