I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached7/3/2023 Thank you for allowing me to review this beautiful graphic novel.īaby Zeina, who knew nothing about the Lebanese Civil War, was gently tossed into the middle of it when she was born in 1981. I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Lerner Publishing Group, Graphic Universe and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. It's really great and I'd like to see more graphic work by this author. I love young Zeina's wavy hair, and the map with fish where water should be. It's black and white with clean lines and beautiful patterns. Life in a warzone isn't much fun and that's mostly the feeling you get here.īut the artwork is stunning, and really why anyone should read this. Along the way, the family got to do normal family kinds of things. She talks about living in what the school thought was the neutral zone, so they had to be driven out of their neighborhood to a bus stop. Then again, she was just a child, so perhaps my expectations were a bit high. The art is fantastic, but I kind of wanted something more. 'I Remember Beirut' by Zeina Abirached is her memoir of growing up in Beirut during the Christian and Muslim war in the 1980s.
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