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Habibi is the story of two former slaves, Dodola (named after the Iranian rain goddess) and Zam. It opens with the nine-year-old Dodola's marriage to an elderly scribe in the mythical Middle Eastern nation of Wanatolia. When Dodola's husband is killed by bandits she becomes the property of slave traders, who allowed her to adopt an infant slave nine years younger named Zam. Dodola succeeds in escaping from the traders, finding shelter in an abandoned boat hidden in the desert. She acquires food by selling herself to passing traders, and raises Zam on a diet of Koranic and biblical tales. As Zam grows, their relationships shifts from mother/son to brother/sister, and finally to equals whose bonds of attraction become more and more erotic. The two are violently separated when Dodola is abducted by the sultan's men and taken to his court where she is ordered to entertain him for 70 nights. Zam, helpless and alone, falls in with a religious sect of eunuchs. To survive, he allows himself to be castrated, but is then is sold back into slavery--into the service of the Sultan. Dodola and Zam's reunion is occasion for further hardships, suffering, and uncertainty. Habibi is a love story of astounding resonance that is at once contemporary and timeless, a parable about our relationship to the natural world; the cultural divide between the first and third world; the common heritage of Christianity and Islam; and the magic of storytelling that allows us to see the frailty embedded in cruelty, how beauty can preserve us from destruction, and love from the loss of hope. Praise for Blankets: "Blankets is a great American novel...Thompson has set new bars for the medium not just in length, but breadth." -Andrew D. Arnold, Time.com "Blankets is more than one of the best graphic novels published in this century. It is also a suspension bridge over our disbelief that words and pictures can transport a story to a place where words alone can not go." -The Oregonian "Blankets is a genuine bildungsroman like David Copperfield and The Way of All Flesh. It is also a superb example of the art of cartooning: the blending of word and picture to achieve an effect that neither is capable of without the other...a graphic novel of great sensitivity and insight." -Robert C. Harvey, The Bloomsbury Review "I thought it was moving, tender, beautifully drawn, painfully honest, and probably the most important graphic novel since JIMMY CORRIGAN." -Neil Gaiman
