![]() ![]() It was a little too mushy, everything fell into place. Especially when Tova comes back to Cairo to be with Ashraf. Everything’s a bit to happy of an ending. ![]() ![]() Okay, onto Cairo‘s story… On one hand, I love what Wilson says about Cairo and the changing Arab world in the story but the ending, it kind of kills it for me. And I feel having the book in black and white makes me focus more on the characters’ different features than using short-cuts based on coloring like “so-and-so has brown hair.” Which that Perker can make them all look different enough from each other to be distinguishable speaks volumes of him as an illustrator. As much as I enjoyed his pencils in Air, I almost like them better here. I felt that it allowed for more detail to pop in his work. And I really appreciated the black and white art instead of it being colored. She uses magical realism as a great tool to show the different qualities and personalities of the various characters and of her setting, Cairo. I continue to love the magical realist stories told by Wilson, especially in how her characters adapt to the world that doesn’t necessarily behave in the ways they think it should. ![]()
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