Habibi Graphic Novel by Craig Thompson kitchen sexuality and ageing in modern

sexuality and ageing in modern Britain

Naomi Ackie and Munroe Bergdorf

Published: 5 Oct 2021

this book celebrates the amazing variety and vision that lies behind sometimes quite ordinary facades

the book includes brief biographies of real women from all walks of life in fairy tale form

Habibi Graphic Novel by Craig Thompson kitchen sexuality and ageing in modernHabibi, based on a Middle Eastern fable, is a wonderfully illustrated graphic novel that tells the story of Dodola, who escapes being sold into slavery and rescues an abandoned baby she names Zam. They live in isolation in an old boat in the desert. As they age their relationship shifts from mother and son, to brother and sister and eventually lovers. In the meantime however Dodola is forced to prostitute herself to desert traders in order to provide