I'm not necessarily impressed with the story of this one; the drawing is fine, conventional, I guess, but the story seems to involve two parents who more or less suck. I can understand the father - he is a fan of arab superiority while taking advantage of what France has to offer. There's no discussion on his hypocrisy, and there's little space to debate his views of the world, but that's fine, no special commentary is needed, we can get to conclusions by ourselves.

The mother is the other character to dislike. I get it. You make a mistake once. Twice. But a third time? One would think that people would learn from their mistakes, but she definitely doesn't.

And I guess I should accept the fact that this is his own life the guy is talking about, but he either is fine to depict his mother as dumb, or he's really unfair in his depiction of his parents and his own situation.

On the back of the book (that's the Romanian edition that wasn't registered here) there's a note about how the author is funny, full of life and sensitivity. He is not. It made me really want to google stuff to double check what the author says because I didn't feel like believing this guy's story. It may very well be a true story, but I couldn't care less. And that's a bad thing to say when you finish a book.