#Graphic Novel Memoir

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"MexiKid" by Pedro Martin

Thank you @mexikidstories for writing it! ❤️

Thank you @yayyyybooks for recommending it! ❤️

25 books from 25 countries 2025: Mexico

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A Fire Story: Graphic Novel Review

Brian Fies recounts his experience of losing his home to the 2017 California wildfires, blending personal anecdotes, survivor stories, and vivid artwork in A Fire Story.

Sneha Jaiswal (Twitter | Instagram) ‘ON MONDAY, MY HOUSE DISAPPEARED.’ That’s the first, big, bold line of A Fire Story, the graphic novel memoir where artist Brian Fies recollects losing his home to the devastating California wildfires in 2017 and the aftermath. Brian Fies takes readers to 1 a.m. on October 9, 2017, when he and his wife woke up in their home to the smell of smoke and an…

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“I feel like they want a kinder, gentler Holocaust to present.” —Art Spiegelman

Two years ago, the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee banned the first—and only—Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel from their 8th grade curriculum: Art Spiegelman's Maus.

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And, importantly, share some recs!

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🍉 Books for Read Palestine Week 2024 [ Nov 29 - Dec 5 ]

✨ This guide will no doubt get hidden, given the topic, so please help me by sharing this!

❓What are you reading this week?

🍉 Educate and empathize! Here are 82 books you can read for Read Palestine Week! I've included 26 queer books for those of you who #readqueerallyear as well. Please read these books to learn more about the Palestinian experience. Shukran (thank you)!

✨ Poetry 🍉 Enemy of the Sun - (ed) Edmund Ghareeb and Naseer Aruri 🍉 A Mountainous Journey - Fadwa Tuqan 🍉 So What - Taha Muhammad Ali 🍉 Affiliation - Mira Mattar 🍉 The Butterfly's Burden - Mahmoud Darwish 🍉 Born Palestinian, Born Black & The Gaza Suite - Suheir Hammad 🍉 Breaking Poems - Suheir Hammad 🍉 In the Presence of Absence - Mahmoud Darwish 🍉 Rifqa - Mohammed el-Kurd 🍉 My Voice Sought the Wind - Susan Abulhawa 🍉 Blood Orange - Yaffa 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 To All the Yellow Flowers - Raya Tuffaha 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Before the Next Bomb Drops - Remi Kanazi 🍉 Birthright - George Abraham 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Tent Generations - Various 🍉 Who is Owed Springtime - Rasha Abdulhadi 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 The Twenty-Ninth Year - Hala Alyan 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Some Things Never Leave You - Zeina Azzam 🍉 I Saw Ramallah - Mourid Barghouti 🍉 Nothing More To Lose - Najwan Darwish 🍉 The Specimen's Apology - George Abraham & Leila Abdelrazaq 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Shell Houses - Rasha Abdulhadi 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 The Moon That Turns You Back - Hala Alyan 🍉 Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear - Mosab Abu Toha 🍉 Halal If You Hear Me - (ed) Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillo 🍉 Water & Salt -Lena Khalaf Tuffaha 🍉 Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. - Noor Hindi 🏳️‍🌈

✨ Non-Fiction/Memoirs 🍉 Are You This? Or Are You This? - Madian Al Jazerah 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 This Arab is Queer - (ed) Elias Jahshan 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Love is an Ex-Country - Randa Jarrar 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Decolonial Queering in Palestine - Walaa Alqaisiya 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman - N.S. Nuseibeh 🍉 The Trinity of Fundamentals - Wisam Rafeedie 🍉 Between Banat - Mejdulene Bernard Shomali 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa'ed Atshan 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom - Ahed Tamimi & Dena Takruri 🍉 Fashioning the Modern Middle East: Gender, Body, and Nation - Reina Lewis and Yasmine Nachabe Taan 🍉 Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine - Ibtisam Barakat 🍉 We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance - Linda Sarsour 🍉 Palestine: A Socialist Introduction - Sumaya Awad & Brian Bean 🍉 Voices of the Nakba - Diana Allan 🍉 Tracing Homelands - Linda Dittmar 🍉 Black Power & Palestine - Michael R. Fischbach 🍉 The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé 🍉 A Day in the Life of Abed Salama - Nathan Thrall 🍉 A Land with a People - Esther Farmer, Rosalind Petchesky, & Sarah Sills 🍉 Inara by Mx. Yaffa AS 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Mural - Mahmoud Darwish 🍉 Light in Gaza - Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, & Michael Merryman lotze 🍉 The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein 🍉 Gaza - Norman Finkelstein

✨ Fiction 🍉 A Map of Home - Randa Jarrar 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Minor Detail - Adania Shibli 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 The Philistine - Leila Marshy 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Muneera and the Moon - Sonia Sulaiman 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Belladonna - Anbara Salam 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Behind You Is The Sea - Susan Muaddi Darraj 🍉 The Coin - Yasmin Zaher 🍉 Guapa - Saleem Haddad 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 The Parisian - Isabella Hammad 🍉 Salt Houses - Hala Alyan 🍉 The Ordeal of Being Known - Malia Rose 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 From Whole Cloth - Sonia Sulaiman 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Against the Loveless World - Susan Abulhawa 🍉 The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah 🍉 Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa 🍉 My First and Only Love - Sahar Khalifeh 🍉 They Fell Like Stars From the Sky & Other Stories - Sheikha Helawy 🍉 Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad 🍉 Wild Thorns - Sahar Khalifeh 🍉 A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum 🍉 Mother of Strangers - Suad Amiry 🍉 Hazardous Spirits - Anbara Salam 🏳️‍🌈 🍉 The Book of Ramallah - Maya Abu Al-Hayat

🏳️‍🌈 Graphic Novels 🍉 Mis(h)adra - Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 Confetti Realms - Nadia Shammas 🍉 Where Black Stars Rise - Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger 🍉 Nayra and the Djinn - Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 Squire - Nadia Shammas & Sara Alfageeh 🍉 My Mama's Magic - Amina Awad

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To everyone harboring their own fire and to everyone lost in the dark. May you see the sun again.

N.D. Stevenson, The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

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(I try to remind myself of all the reasons I don’t want to die, but the problem isn’t that I want to die. The problem is that I want to live too much for the world to contain me, and I need to break free of myself before it kills me.)

Keezy Young, Sunflowers

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Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.

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"Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home" by Nora Krug

Thank you @yayyyybooks for the rec! ❤️

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Kabul Disco: Graphic Novel Review

Nicolas Wild’s Kabul Disco captures his life as an expat artist in Kabul, where he’s tasked with illustrating the Afghan constitution for children.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Sneha Jaiswal (Twitter | Instagram) This graphic novel by French artist Nicolas Wild has a clickbait tagline – How I managed to not be abducted in Afghanistan. So, I’ll have to admit that I felt slight cheated at the end, since as a reader you keep waiting for something explosive to happen, where the author is ‘almost abducted’, but manages to hoodwink the villains…

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Art Spiegelman's Maus is one of Variety's “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read”—have you?

Two extraordinary books. Sixteen pages of bonus material—including lithographs and comix—designed by the award-winning artist. One incredible box set.

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Staff Pick: Weirdo

Written by Tony Weaver, Jr.

Illustrated by Jes & Cin Wibowo

(Editor's note: This book deals with suicidal thoughts and a suicide attempt. The attempt is not depicted. If you or someone you know needs help you can call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Hotline (US & Canada).)

Fantastic juvenile graphic novel about the importance of being yourself.

Tony has changed schools many times due to bullying, but at his new school, after the help of therapy, he meets a new group of friends who he can be himself around - and in turn he teaches them how to be themselves. He also teaches them to stand up for the things they love and the people they love.

The epilogue states:

“It can be a challenge to be who you are or envision what you can be. But even when the darkness makes you feel alone there's always someone in your corner. Sometimes it's the people you least expect. People that will show up for you. People that will grow with you on your journey. Find love for yourself. Share that love with others and I promise you'll be the hero of your own story.”

I highly recommend this graphic novel! It's great for readers who enjoy graphic novels by Raina Telgemeier, Jerry Craft, and Kayla Miller.

Check it out

See more of Kate's recs

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My Friend Dahmer (2017) dir. Marc Meyers