Esther's Notebooks: Tales from my eleven-year-old life Morgan O'Regan and the beauty of not

and the beauty of not caring about your appearance as much as you did when you were younger

the proper appendages

Awkward and wholly authentic

notions of self and

darkly humorous portrait of a family in mourning

Esther's Notebooks: Tales from my eleven-year-old life Morgan O'Regan and the beauty of notBy Riad Sattouf. Published by Pushkin Press. Softcover, 56 pages, Colour, 2021. Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf has a chat with his friends daughter, Esther. She tells him about her life, about school, her friends, her hopes, dreams and fears, and then he works it up into a comic strip. This book consists of 52 of those strips, telling between them the story of a year in the life of this sharp, spirited and funny child. The result is a