Excerpt from The Silk Road

Marguerite Dabaie, author of the graphic novel The Hookah Girl: And Other True Stories (Rosarium Publishing, 2018) draws autobiographical, socio-political, and historical-fictional comics with a decorative flair. She is currently working on a graphic novel about the seventh-century Silk Road. Marguerite is a freelance illustrator and has worked with publications such as the Nib, the Believer, Abrams, and Viking Penguin, among others. Once a year, Marguerite cohosts Pete’s Mini Zine Fest, the fest-in-a-bar, in Brooklyn.