{"id":50103,"date":"2022-12-11T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=50103"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:44:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:44:03","slug":"esthers-notebooks-by-riad-sattouf-translated-by-sam-taylor-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/esthers-notebooks-by-riad-sattouf-translated-by-sam-taylor-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Esther’s Notebooks by Riad Sattouf, translated by Sam Taylor [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"*STARRED REVIEW
\n<\/strong>Riad Sattouf, renowned for his Arab of the Future<\/em><\/a> autobiographical series, is just as famous in France for Esther\u2019s Notebooks<\/em>, which began as a weekly newspaper comic spotlighting the observations and experiences of a friend\u2019s daughter. The comics\u2019 popularity inspired best-selling books and an animated series. This is Esther\u2019s first appearance in the U.S., with her 10-, 11-, and 12-year-old selves translated in three parts by Sam Taylor, who proves especially adroit in bringing the French wordplay into English.<\/p>\n

Esther is an utter delight \u2013 smart, independent, imaginative, and self-aware. She\u2019s the middle child in a Parisian family, sandwiched between an annoying older brother and adorable baby brother. Their father is a trainer at a gym, their mother in insurance; Esther\u2019s close to both, but she particularly adores her father. She attends a private school (\u201cthere\u2019s lots of violence in free schools\u201d), which admittedly is a financial strain; nope, she can\u2019t have an iPhone.<\/p>\n

By part 3, she successfully tests into a \u201cfree, posh\u201d secondary school. Her evolving relationships include multiple best friends, ex-husbands, boyfriends. She \u201cprefers girls,\u201d even if she\u2019s not gay like her aunt. She\u2019s already realized \u201cwe would be perfectly fine without any boys at all.\u201d Despite Esther\u2019s youth, terrorism, racism, and politics (as president, she\u2019d never take Trump\u2019s calls) are all quotidian details of her growing maturity.<\/p>\n

French editions continue into Esther\u2019s fifteenth year; English editions will hopefully follow.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>:\u00a0\u201cGraphic Titles,\u201d Booklist<\/em>, November 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2016-2017 (France), 2023 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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