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Books like Shenzhen
A wry, quietly lonely portrait of expatriate life in a rapidly changing, unfamiliar city. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Shenzhen.
- alienating
- contemplative
- quietly absurd
- lonely
- 01
Chroniques birmanes
Guy Delisle
A wry, quietly observant graphic travelogue that finds the profound and the absurd in the daily rhythms of life under a military dictatorship.
- 02
Pyongyang
Guy Delisle
A wry, starkly drawn journey into the surreal and claustrophobic heart of a modern totalitarian state.
- 03
Displacement
Lucy Knisley
A tender, watercolor-washed journey through the choppy waters of caregiving, memory, and generational love.
- 04
Rolling Blackouts
Sarah Glidden
A quietly devastating, watercolor-washed exploration of the ethics of journalism and the human echoes of war.
- 05
The Arab of the future
Riad Sattouf
A visually striking and candid graphic memoir that filters the chaos of political idealism and cultural displacement through the wide eyes of a nomadic child.
- 06
Epileptic
David B.
A sprawling, heavily inked descent into the labyrinth of family trauma, where childhood illness takes the shape of literal monsters.
- 07
Berlin, Vol. 2
Jason Lutes
A masterful, dread-soaked portrait of a vibrant metropolis dancing on the edge of the abyss.
- 08
L'Arabe du futur, tome 2
Riad Sattouf
A darkly funny, piercingly observant graphic memoir that filters the absurdities and brutalities of a Syrian childhood through a deceptively innocent lens.
- 09
Fun Home
Alison Bechdel · 2006
A darkly funny, deeply literary graphic memoir that dissects the complicated legacy of a closeted parent and a daughter's own queer awakening.
- 10
The Arrival
Shaun Tan
A breathtaking, wordless journey through a surreal and strange new world that captures the universal heartache and hope of leaving home.
- 11
Drawing from memory
Allen Say
A visually stunning, deeply personal reflection on the mentors who shape us and the art that saves us.
- 12
How to understand Israel in 60 days or less
Sarah Glidden
A deeply earnest, watercolor-washed journey through the messy intersection of personal identity and geopolitical reality.
