Back in 2016, I created a graphic series for The New York Times, called WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Together with my illustrator, Michael Sloan, I have expanded that series into a book. It tells the story of a family of Syrian refugees who arrived in the U.S. on Election Day 2016. They effectively landed in one country and woke up in another. The politics of the day -- like Trump's Muslim Ban -- have played out powerfully and personally for this family, effectively severing the family in half.
This a graphic narrative -- or true comic -- that uses a combination of art and reporting to tell a story. The book is almost entirely new from the original New York Times series. In the book, we tell the story from the point of view of the family's teenage son, Naji. It is an epic coming of age tale in Trump’s America.
