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Algeria Is Beautiful Like America

Olivia Burton

3.71/5 (491 ratings)

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Olivia had always heard stories about Algeria from her maternal grandmother, a Black Foot (a “Pied-Noir,” the French term for Christian and Jewish settlers of French Algeria who emigrated to France after the Algerian War of Independence). After her grandmother’s death, Olivia found some of her grandmother’s journals and letters describing her homeland. Now, ten years later, she resolves to travel to Algeria and experience the country for herself; she arrives alone, with her grandmother’s postcards and letters in tow, and with but a single phone number in her pocket, of an Algerian Djaffar, who will act as her guide. Olivia’s quest to understand her origins will bring her to face questions about heritage, history, shame, friendship, memory, nostalgia, fantasy, the nature of exile, and our unending quest to understand who we are and where we come from.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 176 pages

Publication:: 2018

Publisher:: Lion Forge Comics

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1941302564

ISBN13:: 9781941302569

kindle Asin:: B078XPK4GJ

Algeria Is Beautiful Like America

Olivia Burton

3.71/5 (491 ratings)

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Olivia had always heard stories about Algeria from her maternal grandmother, a Black Foot (a “Pied-Noir,” the French term for Christian and Jewish settlers of French Algeria who emigrated to France after the Algerian War of Independence). After her grandmother’s death, Olivia found some of her grandmother’s journals and letters describing her homeland. Now, ten years later, she resolves to travel to Algeria and experience the country for herself; she arrives alone, with her grandmother’s postcards and letters in tow, and with but a single phone number in her pocket, of an Algerian Djaffar, who will act as her guide. Olivia’s quest to understand her origins will bring her to face questions about heritage, history, shame, friendship, memory, nostalgia, fantasy, the nature of exile, and our unending quest to understand who we are and where we come from.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 176 pages

Publication:: 2018

Publisher:: Lion Forge Comics

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1941302564

ISBN13:: 9781941302569

kindle Asin:: B078XPK4GJ

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