I Was Their American Dream av Malaka Gharib

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<b><b>“A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book.”—Jonny Sun</b><br> <br><b>“[A] high-spirited graphical memoir . . . Gharib’s wisdom about the power and limits of racial identity is evident in the way she draws.”—NPR</b><br><br><b>WINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Public Library • <i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br><br></b><i>I Was Their American Dream</i> is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents'' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family''s Filipino and Egyptian customs, ada