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Esther’s Notebooks by Riad Sattouf

Hardcover – Pantheon – Jan 2023 – 165 pages

The hilarious, heartbreaking, and painfully true life of a girl growing up in Paris, from the acclaimed comic book artist and author of The Arab of the Future

Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf has a chat with his friend’s 10-year old daughter, Esther.  She tells him about her life, her family, her school, her friends, her hopes, her dreams and her fears. And then he creates a one-page comic strip based on what she says.

This book is a collection of 156 of those strips, comprising the first three volumes as they appeared in Europe, spanning Esther’s life from age 10 to 12.