Gharib: What I discovered from writing the book was that I felt so uncomfortable feeling like, you know, in myself. Jackson: In “I Was Their American Dream,” you sort of talk about how your parents had a more traditional view of what the American Dream was – what does the American Dream mean to you? And in your life, I guess?
I don’t know if you remember that from when you were a kid. Marissa Moss is the creator of the Amelia series – Amelia’s Notebook series.
So, there are games in it, kind of the way that Highlights would do. I really like Highlights magazine – Highlights for kids. The way that they have paper dolls in the magazine – I made paper dolls myself. So, you can see a lot of influence if you've ever read the American Girl books or magazines, you know, even the way that they make the family tree at the front of the book. So, all my references are going to be very old, but I really loved American Girl magazine and American Girl dolls. Gharib: I definitely am a child of the late 90s, early 2000s. I was wondering if you – what your inspiration were? Jackson: Artistic style, and just the way that people draw, tells a lot about a person, I think, and I really loved the stylistic aspects of your book. I thought you were cool with immigrants, and I guess we are not, you’re not,” and so I started to draw all these cartoons in reaction to what I was seeing in the news. Seeing it all in 2016, it made me think, “Oh, I thought we were cool, America. I had been really surprised and kind of shocked by the anti-immigrant rhetoric I was seeing in the news. Malaka Gharib: I wrote "I Was Their American Dream" in the wake of the 2016 elections. Halle Jackson: Take me back to the beginning – how was the idea born and what is your creative process really like?
The Unbound Book Festival is coming up on Saturday, and KBIA has been talking to some of this year's authors in a series we're calling "Unbound Authors."
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