Zam, a refugee slave, has become separated from the woman who has raised him, Dodola. He searches the desert and the city to find her . . . (Click on the arrow icons in the lower right of the frame to read in fullscreen.)

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Excerpted from Habibi by Craig Thompson. Copyright © 2011 by Craig Thompson. Excerpted by permission of Pantheon, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.