I Was Their American Dream Ernests Kļaviņš bringing together important voices and

bringing together important voices and biographical context illustrating four decades of Black perspectives on everything from daily life to the Civil Rights Movement

and the ease with which vitriolic hatred can be spread digitally

including very few uses of punctuation or capital letters

startlingly observant commentary on pop culture

The textures and patterns she achieves using gouache paint give her work a wonderfully awkward tone and she brings her characters to life through short vignettes that unfold on the page

I Was Their American Dream Ernests Kļaviņš bringing together important voices andBy Malaka Gharib. Published by Penguin Random House. Softcover, 160 pages, Colour, 2019. I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming of age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents ideals, learning to code switch between her familys Filipino and