I read a sample of this book a few months ago on The Nib and knew I was going to enjoy it. Malaka Gharib draws in a loose, expressive style with a limited color palette that perfectly fits with this short but satisfying memoir. Gharib tells how each of her parents came to California as immigrants; her mother from the Philippians, her father from Egypt. When they married and had their daughter, they thought they were on the road to the American Dream. But the marriage didn't last, and Malaka ended with half-siblings on both sides of a family scattered across the globe. She talks about her elementary and high school days as one of many kids from mixed cultures in the Southern California town of Cerritos. Her classmates there were Indian-American, Taiwanese-American, Iranian-American, Japanese-American, Pakistani-American, Mexican-American, Korean-American, Palestinian-American and more. Landing at the extremely white Syracuse University for college took some adjusting. Gharib includes recipes, paper dolls, a tear-out single page zine, quizzes and quotes from friends along with the narrative of spending summers in Cairo with her father, years dealing migroagressions while working in Washington DC, and meeting the man who would eventually become her husband.