June Book List (part 2)

I'm telling you, comic books are a great way to beef up the old book list numbers...

Exit Wounds--Rutu Modan
A Tel Aviv taxi cab driver looks for his lost father--did he die in a terrorist bombing? Ok story, ok drawing.

Shortcomings--Adrian Tomine
A Japanese American jerk sort of coming to terms with his jerkiness. Good drawings, good story (at least until the very end).

Aya--Marguerite Abouet & Clément Oubrerie
A few months in the life of a teenage girl in a working-class neighborhood of Abidjan. The slice-of-life story was only moderately compelling but that might have been because I was very sleepy when I read it.