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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2014 | Grades 5 and Up
Gr 7 Up—Abirached's companion to A Game for Swallows (Graphic Universe, 2013) reveals numerous details from her childhood in Beirut during the war from 1975 to 1990 war. "I remember" is a recurring phrase and provides a personal frame of reference for the effect of war on kids. Some are simple childhood memories of Kit Kat candy bars, bad haircuts, and her father's obsession with recorded classical music. Many are exquisite visual packages of the trauma experienced by a young girl: documenting the series of bullet h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on October 1, 2014
In her previous graphic-novel memoir A Game for Swallows (rev. 9/12), Abirached viewed the Lebanese civil war through the lens of a single excruciating evening, as young Zeina awaited her parents' return home amidst heavy bombing. Here the author revisits that era in a loosely connected series of sobering vignettes and impressions, each beginning with the phrase "I remember": her family's bullet hole-riddled car, her brother's shrapnel collection, schools used as bomb shelters. Black-and-white geometric ill...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2014
Abirached revisits the Lebanese civil war setting of her previous graphic-novel memoir <i>A Game for Swallows</i> in a loosely connected serie...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
