Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
10 best books like Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq (Sarah Glidden): Sabrina, Chroniques de Jérusalem, Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, Turning Japanese, We Are On Our Own, The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir, A Fire Story, Algeria Is Beautiful Like America, The Green Hand and Other Stories, The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule
Video games, conspiracy theories, breakdown, murder: Everything’s gonna be all right—until it isn’t...
How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Rate your overall mood from 1 to 5, 1 being poor. Rate your stress level from 1 to 5, 5 being severe. Are you experiencing depression...
| Author | Guy Delisle |
| ISBN | 2756025690 |
Guy Delisle et sa famille s’installent pour une année à Jérusalem. Pas évident de se repérer dans cette ville aux multiples visages, animée par les passions et les conflits depuis près de 4000 ans. Au
détour d’une ruelle, à la sortie d’un lieu saint, à la terrasse d’un café,...
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
| Author | Guy Delisle |
| ISBN | 0224079913 |
Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle's observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French...
| Author | MariNaomi |
| ISBN | 1937541169 |
MariNaomi’s newest graphic novel tours the mid-90’s US and Japanese illegal hostess bar scene and her own personal cultural awakening.
In 1995, twenty-two-year-old Mari had just exited a long-term relationship, moving from Mill Valley to San Jose, California. Soon enough, she falls...
| Author | Miriam Katin |
| ISBN | 1896597203 |
A stunning memoir of a mother and her daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong struggle with faith
In this captivating and elegantly illustrated graphic memoir, Miriam Katin retells the story of her and her mother's escape on foot from the Nazi invasion of Budapest. With her father...
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 1627793445 |
The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators—Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his father
In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the...
| Author | Brian Fies |
| ISBN | 1419735853 |
Early morning on Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 6,200 homes and 8,900 structures and were destroyed. Author Brian Fies’s firsthand account of this tragic event is an honest, unflinching depiction of his personal...
| Author | Olivia Burton |
| ISBN | 1941302564 |
Olivia had always heard stories about Algeria from her maternal grandmother, a Black Foot (a “Pied-Noir,” the French term for Christian and Jewish settlers of French Algeria who emigrated to France after the Algerian War of Independence). After her grandmother’s death, Olivia found some...
The Green Hand and Other Stories
| Author | Nicole Claveloux |
| ISBN | 1681371073 |
Nicole Claveloux s short stories originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English are among the most beautiful comics ever created: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us...
The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule
| Author | Igort |
| ISBN | 1451678878 |
Written and illustrated by an award-winning artist and translated into English for the first time, Igort’s The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks is a collection of two harrowing works of graphic nonfiction about life under Russian foreign rule.
After spending two years in Ukraine and Russia,...
Set in the aftermath of Iran’s fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra’s Paradise is the fictional story of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone. What’s keeping his memory from being obliterated is not the law. It is the grit and guts of his...
| Author | Jillian Tamaki |
| ISBN | 1770462872 |
Jenny, post-breakup, becomes obsessed with the mirror Facebook of herself seeing a life that could be hers. An anonymous music file surfaces on the internet and a cult springs up in its wake. A group of city animals briefly open their minds to us. Helen finds her clothes growing baggy, her shoes looser,...
S'enfuir. Récit d'un otage
En 1997, alors qu'il est responsable d'une ONG médicale dans le Caucase, Christophe André a vu sa vie basculer du jour au lendemain après avoir été enlevé en pleine nuit et emmené, cagoule sur la tête, vers une destination inconnue. Guy Delisle l'a rencontré des années plus tard et a recueilli...
L'Arabe du futur 2 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1984-1985
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 2370730544 |
Né d’un père syrien et d’une mère bretonne, Riad Sattouf raconte dans L’Arabe du futur sa jeunesse au Moyen-Orient.
Dans le premier tome (1978-1984), le petit Riad était ballotté entre la Libye, la Bretagne et la Syrie.
Dans ce second tome, qui couvre la première année...
