That same year I found out I was nearsighted … and I thought it would be a good idea to get my hair cut. “I remember the year I had to get braces. The memories she shares are of both small details and big moments of her childhood, many of which are widely relatable, and often quite funny. Less story than a series of vignettes, this account details individual, disparate memories of that time, and yet a sense of story emerges: about the resilience of children and families and people enduring incredible hardship and about how the unthinkable becomes normalized, especially for children who have no other experience. Here, she offers a broader sense of what life was like for her and her family during that time of unrest, covering a span of years. edition: Graphic Universe, 2012), Zeina Abirached built a story around a single night of her childhood growing up in Lebanon during the Civil War in the 1980s. In her graphic novel memoir A Game for Swallows (U.S.
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