Beetroot

In this graphic memoir of childhood, BarnabyRichards recounts how his family moved to Beirutin 1980 just as the already unstable situation inthe Lebanon was about to turn into somethingworse. We see what it was like to live amidstchaos in a city where guns and bullets werecommonplace, where danger lurked just round thecorner. All seen through the eyes of a child whocan't get his tongue round the word Beirut-itbecomes Beetroot-a world populated with his ownwild imaginings as well as the reality of feelinghe is living as if he were Lebanese.