Wild Precious Life

I Was Their American Dream with Malaka Gharib


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Malaka Gharib is the author of I Was Their American Dream, a graphic memoir about being first-generation Filipino Egyptian American, and It Won't Always Be Like This, a graphic memoir about her summers in the Middle East. On today’s show, Annmarie and Malaka talk about the American immigrant experience, how to be a working writer, and what it means to be the realization of our parents’ greatest dreams.


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Authors and Titles Mentioned in This Episode:


I Was Their American Dream, by Malaka Gharib


It Won’t Always Be Like This, by Malaka Gharib


Uzma Jalaluddin


Liana Finck


Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car: Comics for Beautiful, Awful and Ordinary Days, by Jordan Bolton



Follow Malaka Gharib:

Instagram: @MalakaGharib

Substack: @Malaka

malakagharib.com


Photo Credit: Leah Margulies



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