In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhoo
d and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childh
ood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria - but always
under the roof of his father, a Syrian Pan-Arabist who drags his family along in
his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation.