This comic (which I would call almost graphic novel as we learn much about the history of Libya and Syria 80s) is a falsely naive portrait of what made early childhood Riad: a father to West which always stand the fault of its failures on others, an erased mother, a terrifying family where women eat the remains of the men and the children are encouraged to fight each other and insult their neighbors, dictatorships " socialist "assenants warriors and antisemitic discourse in all available media, shortage, grime and absence of prospects in these countries, and that, amid pervasive religion that prohibits criticism. Narrated by another Riad Sattouf that it would have been called a racist for testifying about what he saw and felt. Said by him, it is simply poignant, lively, and terribly pathetic. Highly Volume 2!
