It Won't Always Be Like This

A Graphic Memoir

Malaka Gharib

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Ten Speed Press
15 November 2022

Graphic novels: true stories & non-fiction

An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country-from the award-winning author of I Was Their American Dream.

An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country-from the award-winning author of I Was Their American Dream.

""What a joy it is to read Malaka Gharib's It Won't Always Be Like This, to have your heart expertly broken and put back together within the space of a few panels, to have your wonder in the world restored by her electric mind.""-Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk- A Memoir in Conversations

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR- Book Riot

It's hard enough to figure out boys, beauty, and being cool when you're young, but even harder when you're in a country where you don't understand the language, culture, or social norms.

Nine-year-old Malaka Gharib arrives in Egypt for her annual summer vacation abroad and assumes it'll be just like every other vacation she's spent at her dad's place in Cairo. But her father shares news that changes everything- He has remarried. Over the next fifteen years, as she visits her father's growing family summer after summer, Malaka must reevaluate her place in his life. All that on top of maintaining her coolness!

Malaka doesn't feel like she fits in when she visits her dad--she sticks out in Egypt and doesn't look anything like her fair-haired half siblings. But she adapts. She learns that Nirvana isn't as cool as Nancy Ajram, that there's nothing better than a Fanta and a melon-mint hookah, and that her new stepmother, Hala, isn't so different from Malaka herself.

It Won't Always Be Like This is a touching time capsule of Gharib's childhood memories-each summer a fleeting moment in time-and a powerful reflection on identity, relationships, values, family, and what happens when it all collides.

By: Malaka Gharib
Imprint: Ten Speed Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 165mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9781984860293
ISBN 10: 1984860291
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 15 November 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Malaka Gharib is a writer, journalist, and cartoonist. She is the author of I Was Their American Dream- A Graphic Memoir, winner of an Arab American Book Award and named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and the New York Public Library. By day, she works on NPR's science desk, covering the topic of global health and development. Her comics, zines, and writing have been published in NPR, Catapult, The Seventh Wave Magazine, The Nib, The Believer, and The New Yorker. She lives in Nashville with her husband, Darren, and her dog, Sheeboo.

Reviews for It Won't Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir

What a joy it is to read Malaka Gharib's It Won't Always Be Like This, to have your heart expertly broken and put back together within the space of a few panels, to have your wonder in the world restored by her electric mind. -Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations Intimate and wide-open, It Won't Always Be Like This is a coming-of-age comic imbued with the wisdom of a mature and powerful mind. Gharib is the real deal. -Kristen Radtke, author of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness Malaka Gharib recounts her teenage memories with an open heart and an eye for detail. It Won't Always Be Like This is her best work yet. I wish everyone could write (and draw) about their lives with this much honesty, specificity, and warmth. -Adrian Tomine, author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist