In a word, WOW. This is a massive (in both size and impact) graphic novel by an author/illustrator I've never seen anything from before. Set in an unamed middle-eastern country its tells the story of Dodola, an Arab girl and Zam a black boy who she first meets as a baby. The story is somewhat complicated and often told in flashbacks and sidebars. Besides the main love story (if it can be called that) the book digresses into folklore, stories from the Quran/Bible and a myriad of topics such as arabic calligraphy and the environment. The often intricate artwork is impressive and the book never bores despite being close to 700 pages long. In other words I liked it.
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