At age seven, Farida Fotouhi didn’t know her graphic novel was a metaphor for the atomic bomb her country had dropped on Hiroshima.
“Charcoal Girl” is a book in two parts. The first part is a remarkable graphic novel written by the author at age seven in 1954 Hiroshima, where her father was the first U.S. diplomat after the atomic bomb. The second part was written by the same author in 2014, telling the extraordinary “story behind the story.” Together, the two parts of “Charcoal Girl” demonstrate how the human heart can bridge the chasms created by war, enmity and ethnic differences.
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