METROPOLITAN BOOKS
ARAB OF THE FUTURE GRAPHIC MEMOIR SC #3
1985 -1987
(W) Riad Sattouf (A) Riad Sattouf (CA) Riad Sattouf
The Arab of the Future is the widely acclaimed, internationally bestselling graphic memoir that tells the story of Riad Sattouf's peripatetic childhood in the Middle East. In this third volume, (1985-1987), Riad's mother, fed up with the grinding reality of daily life in the village, decides she cannot take it any longer. When she resolves to move back France, young Riad sees his father torn between his wife's aspirations and the weight of family traditions.