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YA
Translated by Edward Gauvin.
Abirached revisits the Lebanese civil war setting of her previous graphic-novel memoir A Game for Swallows in a loosely connected series of sobering vignettes, each beginning with the phrase "I remember": her family's bullet hole–riddled car, her brother's shrapnel collection, schools used as bomb shelters. Black-and-white geometric illustrations capture both the enormous scale of the war and its personal repercussions.
Reviewer: Katie Bircher
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2014