Restless

"Sexy, inventive, and thoroughly beautiful. Shifting focus elegantly among dreamlike sequences of the surreal, and then grounding firmly in what is clearly a complex reality." -Lee Lai, author of Stone Fruit

"Shifting between dream and delusion, desire and defiance, this sensuous and sensitive tale sets Labanon's corrupted capital as a liminal backdrop." -Paul Gravett, author of Mangasia: The Definitive Guide to Asian Comics

"An absolutely stunning meditation on the anxieties of queer sex and of political revolution. Exploring the quiet tension of chosen family elegantly and precisely." -Shing Yin Khor, author of The Legend of Auntie Po, a National Book Award finalist

"Trippy, gorgeous, and alive with colors so vivid you feel like you can taste them. Dancing in the spaces that constitute queer urban existence with astounding exuberance." -Bishakh Som, author of Apsara Engine, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

"Mesmerizing colors and lines bring intimate insight into the risks of expressing non-normative gender and sexual orientation in an oppressive landscape." -Morgan Boecher, author of What's Normal Anyway?

"An innovative account of what it felt like to be a young lost soul in the Lebanese landscape." -Tracy Chahwan, author of Beirut Bloody Beirut

"With beautiful color palettes, the silent moments speak as loud as the narrative ones." -Lawrence Lindell, author of Blackward

"Beautifully and poetically capturing an uneasy feeling of longing and searching. And helping us to realize just how similar human experiences can be, despite seemingly vast cultural and geographic differences." -L. Nichols, author of Flocks