Poppies of Iraq

In Poppies of Iraq, co-writer Brigitte Findakly recounts her childhood in 1960s and 1970s Iraq, a time of relative peace and modernity before the country’s descent into dictatorship and war. Illustrated by her husband, Lewis Trondheim, with a warm, deceptively simple style, this memoir from Drawn & Quarterly offers a personal, intimate glimpse into a vanished world. The book matters as a gentle, human-scale counterpoint to the headlines, capturing the everyday life and quiet losses of a family caught in history’s upheaval.