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With charming yet powerful drawings and vivid sensory details, Sattouf delivers a child's-eye view of the baffling adult world in all its complexity, corruption, and delusion. \u003cb\u003eThis is a beautiful, funny, and important graphic memoir\u003c\/b\u003e * Alison Bechdel, author of FUN HOME *\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSattouf's book takes us from place to place and culture to culture, and in the emphasis of differences there is also the unveiling of similarities... Sattouf retells, with words and images, \u003cb\u003ethe heartbreaking realisation of the non-place in which many immigrants are forced to exist\u003c\/b\u003e... Sattouf's book is challenging amongst other reasons because it deals with the most demonised, o\u003ci\u003ethered \u003c\/i\u003eidentity in Europe. Because the narrative takes the characters from country to country, language to language and culture to culture, the narrative perspective is necessarily comparative, and because things are never black and white, either\/or, \u003cb\u003eoften the conclusions are contradictory\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cb\u003eThere is a loneliness in all of Sattouf's characters\u003c\/b\u003e, who, often, do not really talk to each other, but to themselves, or keep a repressed\/repressive silence. In the constant coming and going of the trial and error from country to country, the immigrant's story is, in spite of the presence of family, \u003cb\u003eone of solitude, but moved forward by hope\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cbr\u003eIn this sense \u003ci\u003eThe Arab of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea profoundly political and timely book\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cb\u003eThe present historical moment in Europe calls more than ever for exercises of solidarity and empathy: in retelling his past Sattouf is not merely retreating into himself, but telling us very important things about the historical past, present and possible futures of us all.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * Comics Grid *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRiven with flashes of dark humour\u003c\/b\u003e... The \u003cb\u003epenmanship is simple and witty\u003c\/b\u003e, oddly it r\u003cb\u003eeminded me of Matt in the \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. Despite writing for Charlie Hebdo, Sattouf had never been an overtly political cartoonist and yet \u003cb\u003ein \u003ci\u003eThe Arab of The Future\u003c\/i\u003e he has said more about the problems of the Arab world than a hundred newspaper articles\u003c\/b\u003e. The story ends in 1984 with the family about to return to Syria. \u003cb\u003eThe sequel is already out in France with an English edition to come in September. I can't wait.\u003c\/b\u003e * CapX *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEngaging \u003c\/b\u003eand lovely to look at . . . 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But Sattouf uses this style to establish a subtle and contradictory relationship with his reader. \u003cb\u003eHe simultaneously disclaims the reader's attention - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo, nothing important going on here\u003c\/i\u003e - and challenges the discerning few to look closer\u003c\/b\u003e * NPR *\u003cbr\u003eThe hundred-and-fifty-odd pages of Riad Sattouf's internationally bestselling graphic memoir . . . move with an \u003cb\u003eirrepressible comic velocity\u003c\/b\u003e. The book is told \u003ci\u003eCandide\u003c\/i\u003e-style . . . an indictment of the adult world and its insidious methods of diminishment we all have either faced or been fortunate enough to escape. * New Republic *\u003cbr\u003eThe book, whose title pokes fun at Abdel-Razak's pan-Arabist obsessions, \u003cb\u003eshows the hypocrisy behind one man's understanding of that failed political ideology\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003emakes tangible the absurdity of living under propaganda-mad dictators\u003c\/b\u003e, and it \u003cb\u003ehumanizes, for better or worse, certain segments of very poor Muslim populations in two specific parts of the Middle East\u003c\/b\u003e. * Vice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Arab of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e maintains a balance of comedy and commentary and ...is carried by excellent drawings. Riad Sattouf's work \u003cb\u003etakes its place alongside other classic animated retrospective memoirs\u003c\/b\u003e from the region, \u003ci\u003ePersepolis \u003c\/i\u003e. . . and \u003ci\u003eWaltz with Bashir\u003c\/i\u003e * New York Journal of Books *\u003cbr\u003eThe book's highest achievement is \u003cb\u003ethe ability to portray the tacit power structures that govern family and nation through the eyes of a child\u003c\/b\u003e, with all of a child's parental worship and bafflement... \u003ci\u003eThe Arab of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e begs for a more complex and compassionate understanding of an area of the world that's all too often the target of misunderstanding and fear. * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Arab of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e is already being compared to biographical classics like \u003ci\u003eMaus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePersepolis,\u003c\/i\u003e and the modern relevance of the countries in which it is set is sure to make this \u003cb\u003ea widely talked about book this year\u003c\/b\u003e * Mentalfloss.com *\u003cbr\u003eIn his comics, Sattouf deftly weaves the political background with the everyday. 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Some pages flaunt over 10 similarly sized and shaped panels while others reveal only one (often silent) borderless image. The overall effect reveals impressive artwork and many powerful scenes...Skim is a unique piece, one not to be missed. Highly Recommended. [Skim uses] high school as a fertile setting for pungent commentary on racial, cultural, and sexual issues...The narrative, mainly in diary form, feels accurate and realistic, drenched in a sense of confusion and nihilism, and the art, influenced by Craig Thompson's Blankets (2003), reflects the spare, gloomy emotional landscape in which Skim exists. This story will appeal to many female comics fans... * CM Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e...[Skim is a] stunningly emotional graphic novel...an artful jumble that is as true-to-life as it is diffuse...unfussy and immediate...The delicately lined art alternately expands and contradicts the prose to achieve layers of meaning, tone and irony...With honesty and compassion, this innovative narrative communicates a life just beginning, open and full of possibility. * Horn Book, STARRED REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003e...[Skim] manages to avoid the usual cliches...The b\/w cirt is fluid and curvy and looks like it came straight out of a sketchbook. 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Maybe that they've found a bracingly honest story by a writer who seems to remember exactly what it was like to be 16 and in love for the first time. * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eSkim comes out on top...connects in every way...This graphic novel is a winner...a unique creation...Scenes are often hilarious and black-humoured as well as serious...Mariko Tamaki's prose captures an authentic adolescent voice that's dramatic, self-obsessed, funny, earnest, and sometimes glib...Skim is an unforgettable character in the tradition of Holden Caulfield-a clear social commentator on adult and adolescent behaviour whose ironic observations on social hypocrisy ring sharp and true...Illustrator Jillian Tamaki's fine draughtsmanship gives Skim a classic elegance that's missing in many other graphic novels...a powerful sense of mystical eeriness that deepens and enhances the story. Skim is a funny, poignant, memorable drama of navigating adolescence. * Quill \u0026amp; Quire, STARRED REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003eThe Tamaki cousins in their first graphic novel take a huge fistful of typical high school story trappings and distill a beautiful and funny time capsule of real feeling...striking black-and-white artwork flows in clear but soft, shaded line work...The visual storytelling is firm and often quite lovely...Skim is a refreshing reminder of the inevitability of change and the importance of looking beneath the surface. * VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) *\u003cbr\u003eThis beautifully rendered graphic novel portrays the confusion of adolescence and how it can lead to depression and experimentation. * Book Links *\u003cbr\u003e...an auspicious graphic novel debut by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki...It's Jillian's artwork that sets it apart from the coming-of-age pack. 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