Read this one for Lebanon in the StoryGraph’s Read the World 2024 challenge and the art was exquisite. Absolutely beautiful attention to detail especially when it came to the surroundings, home decor etc. The story itself was simple - brother and sister are waiting for their parents to return home, delayed by some barricade or other. Various neighbours drop into to keep the kids company. It’s not a broad-ranging story of the civil war in Lebanon - it never leaves the one room of the apartment, and I like this. We still get a glimpse of the neighbours’ lives and life under civil war through the general chit chat of the characters. The strength of community in times of war is heartening, and I especially loved the male characters - Arab men are so often demonised in Western media. In this graphic novel, they’re soft and caring and protective.