num_pages: 224
description: An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country--from the award-winning author of I Was Their American Dream.It's hard enough to figure out boys beauty and being cool when you're young but even harder when you're in a country where you don't understand the language culture or religion.Nine-year-old Malaka Gharib arrives in Egypt for her annual summer vacation abroad and assumes it'll be just like every other vacation she's spent at her dad's place in Cairo. But her father shares news that changes everything: He has remarried. Over the next fifteen years as she visits her father's growing family summer after summer Malaka must reevaluate her place in his life. All that on top of maintaining her coolness!Malaka doesn't feel like she fits in when she visits her dad--she sticks out in Egypt and doesn't look anything like her fair-haired half siblings. But she adapts. She learns that Nirvana isn't as cool as Nancy Ajram that there's nothing better than a Fanta and a melon-mint hookah that the desert is most beautiful at dawn and that her new stepmother Hala isn't so different from Malaka herself.It Won't Always Be Like This is a touching time capsule of Gharib's childhood memories--each summer a fleeting moment in time--and a powerful reflection on identity relationships values family and what happens when it all collides.
language: English
title: It Won't Always Be Like This
publisher: Ten Speed Press