I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir

Great graphic that can be for 8th grade and up. Gharib takes us from her life growing up in Cerritas, CA as the 1st gen American child of an Egyptian father & Filipino mother, straddling the two cultures while also trying to navigate being an American and proximity to whiteness, through college and navigating the working world, up until her present adult life. The art is really fun and the color palette is limited to red, white, and blue, which makes sense to the theme but makes a lot of people redheads! Lots of teens will make connections here. Would be a great lit circle option.