![]() ![]() Samanci's caricatures of herself and the people around her, often drawn wide-eyed with surprise, make the sporadic episodes of political strife and urban violence oddly incongruous. an artist!"%E2%80%94that her true self is revealed. It's only when friends tutoring her admire the doodles on her math notes%E2%80%94"I love the coffee-stain people," one says. (Meanwhile, she idolizes Jacques Cousteau.) Year after year, she takes exams, tries to keep up with her academically talented older sister, and wrestles with a crushing sense of inadequacy. If teenage Samanci doesn't gain admission to Turkey's finest university and become an engineer, her father worries that she'll die penniless. It's a simple collection of her childhood memories (sent out to buy milk, she instead sneaks into the local school to find her sister) a description of life under a military government ("Every Turk is born a soldier!" her textbook declares) and a fearless examination of her struggle to escape her father's expectations. Turkish artist Samanci's graphic memoir tells many stories. ![]()
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