These odors tend to convey the quality of relationships, with Sattouf explaining, "the people whose odor I preferred were generally the ones who were the kindest to me. We are proud to be different and embrace standing apart on a book mountain by working from a virtual inventory which allows us to provide thousands of books that may be difficult to get for your bookshelf or your studies.

Il a publié Les Pauvres Aventures de Jérémie, Manuel du puceau, No sex in New York, Pipit Farlouse, Retour au collège, Pascal Brutal, La Vie secrète des jeunes, Les Cahiers d'Esther, le Jeune acteur et L'Arabe du futur. The voices of those who were judgmental to us in our youth can live on in our heads for years or even decades after they are no longer really in our lives, to our detriment. The attempt at censorship backfired by attracting far more attention to the then-unknown author than might otherwise have occurred.

Most of the more horrific aspects are somewhat glazed over; the stories are told through the eyes of Sattouf as tiny kid. We pride ourselves in being a community of local book lovers which allows our passion and devotion to shine in everything we do. Volume 6 of L’Arabe du Futur, begins in 1994 while Sattouf is still in high school and ends in 2011, shortly after the author received the prize for best album of 2010 at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. The details are salient and feel real, but a lot of the bigger context is missing; possibly purposely since Sattouf himself wouldn't have had context beyond snippets of news and overheard adult conversation at the time.

That being said, there are horrifying moments of violence and loss of innocence that stick with you. While all of the volumes of L’Arabe du futur are personal, book 6 shows the author at his most vulnerable.And hold they do, though food is scarce, children kill dogs for sport, and with locks banned, the Sattoufs come home one day to discover another family occupying their apartment. Every volume of this autobiographical bande dessinée has been a bestseller in France and translated into over 20 languages. He’s an equal-opportunity satirist and claims that he is racist or has a pro-west agenda don’t ring true. The reader easily shuttles back and forth between naïve and knowing perspectives, the two combined in the space of a frame.