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An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father’s new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country—from the award-winning author of I Was Their American Dream.
 
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I loved this graphic novel because it shows the complexities and beauties of women's relationships and explores ideas of what it means to be a truly free woman, all through a mixed-race, coming-of-age storyline.

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