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āWhat a joy it is to read Malaka Gharibās It Wonāt Always Be Like This, to have your heart expertly broken and put back together within the space of a few panels, to have your wonder in the world restored by her electric mind.āāMira Jacob, author of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
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Itās hard enough to figure out boys, beauty, and being cool when youāre young, but even harder when youāre in a country where you donāt understand the language, culture, or social norms.
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Nine-year-old Malaka Gharib arrives in Egypt for her annual summer vacation abroad and assumes it'll be just like every other vacation she's spent at her dad's place in Cairo. But her father shares news that changes everything: He has remarried. Over the next fifteen years, as she visits her father's growing family summer after summer, Malaka must reevaluate her place in his life. All that on top of maintaining her coolness!
Malaka doesn't feel like she fits in when she visits her dad--she sticks out in Egypt and doesn't look anything like her fair-haired half siblings. But she adapts. She learns that Nirvana isn't as cool as Nancy Ajram, that there's nothing better than a Fanta and a melon-mint hookah, and that her new stepmother, Hala, isn't so different from Malaka herself.
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It Wonāt Always Be Like This is a touching time capsule of Gharibās childhood memoriesāeach summer a fleeting moment in timeāand a powerful reflection on identity, relationships, values, family, and what happens when it all collides.
This book title, It Won't Always Be Like This (A Graphic Memoir), ISBN: 9781984860293, by Malaka Gharib, published by Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed (September 20, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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