Monster portraits /

"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two--texts and drawings, brother and sister...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samatar, Sofia (Author)
Other Authors: Samatar, Del (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brookline, MA : Rose Metal Press, Inc., 2018.
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