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It won't always be like this, a graphic memoir, Malaka Gharib

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It won't always be like this, a graphic memoir, Malaka Gharib

Language

eng

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autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

It won't always be like this

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

1302334311

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Malaka Gharib

Sub title

a graphic memoir

Summary

Its hard enough to figure out boys, beauty, and being cool when youre young, but even harder when youre in a country where you dont understand the language, culture, or social norms. 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 will not always be like this

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