Last year, Riad Sattouf‘s graphic memoir, THE ARAB OF THE FUTURE: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984, made a huge splash in the literary world—it won the L.A. Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comic and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2015.
Now the sequel, THE ARAB OF THE FUTURE 2: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984-1985: A Graphic Memoir, is one of Publishers Weekly‘s Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2016 and has THREE starred reviews:
“In the second volume of an acclaimed five-part graphic memoir, originally published in France, cartoonist Sattouf captures the discomfiting and occasionally humorous details of his first year in school in a Syria that is casually anti-Semitic and not particularly kind to anyone.”
— Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Even before its concluding volume, Sattouf’s saga of struggle and survival has established itself among the most powerful memoirs the comics medium has seen.” — Booklist, starred review
“This work will undoubtedly win more accolades as the author continues the proposed five-volume series. Readers familiar with Marjane Satrapi’s PERSEPOLIS will be well rewarded when they pick up this similarly engrossing book.” — Library Journal, starred review
THE ARAB OF THE FUTURE 2 will be available from Henry Holt & Co. on September 20, 2016.