Your Wish is my Command Becca Tobin a free black man who’s

a free black man who’s a brilliant swordsman and the story’s true hero

Ricard’s vibrant world shines with visual puns and deft animal caricatures

Baathist militiamen are publicly hanged and school kids are bussed past them to bear witness

serving up another tale of friendship

It's a knockout on so many different levels

Your Wish is my Command Becca Tobin a free black man who’sBy Deena Mohamed. Published by Granta. Hardcover, 528 pages, B&W and Colour, 2023. Your Wish is My Command is the story of three people who are navigating a world where wishes are literally for sale. Mired as they are in bureaucracy and the familiar prejudices of our world, the wishes that are more expensive are more likely to work as intended. Three wishes sold at an unassuming kiosk in Cairo link Aziza, Nour and Shokry, changing their perspectives