The Roots of My Hair follows Rose, a mixed-race young woman from Réunion Island, as she navigates the pressure to “tame” her natural hair in a society shaped by Eurocentric beauty standards. When she moves to mainland France to study and later to work, Rose experiments with straightening techniques, visits beauty salons, and learns to blend in—until she begins to question what lies beneath those habits. Through humor, honesty, and vulnerability, her coming-of-age journey explores identity, race, colonial history, and the search for belonging, offering a deeply personal yet widely relatable story of learning to love oneself from the roots up.

The Roots of My Hair is by Lou Lubie, translated by Makedah Hughes, and being published by Helvetiq.

After sweeping France’s most prestigious honors—including the France Info News & Reportage Prize—this bold, funny, and highly-anticipated graphic novel will finally available in English on May 5, 2026 and is available for pre-order now.