Poppies of Iraq

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A personal account of an Iraqi childhood – seemed on best of the year lists from Kirkus, Guardian, Vulture, Forbes, and more!

Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly’s nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her hometown Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural practices, the education system, Saddam Hussein’s state keep an eye on, and her circle of relatives’s history as Orthodox Christians in the arab world. Poppies of Iraq is intimate and wide-ranging; the story of how you can turn out to be separated from one’s hometown and still feel intimately connected yet in the end estranged.

Signs of an oppressive regime permeate a seemingly normal life: magazines arrive edited by customs; the color red is banned after the execution of General Kassim; Baathist militiamen are publicly hanged and school kids are bussed past them to bear witness. As conditions in Mosul worsen over her childhood, Brigitte’s father is all the time hopeful that life in Iraq will return to being secular and prosperous. The circle of relatives eventually feels compelled to move to Paris, alternatively, where Brigitte finds herself not rather belonging to either culture. Trondheim brings to life Findakly’s memories to create a poignant circle of relatives portrait that covers loss, tragedy, love, and the loneliness of exile.

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