Junko Kakakami is a Japanese mangaka who lives in Paris. She came out with a manga, It’s Your World, that’s good, light reading on a plane or train trip.

It’s Your World tells the story of a Japanese family that moves to Paris. It’s a fish-out-of-water genre piece. I enjoy this genre, because it speaks both to what’s specific to French culture (in this case, Parisian subculture) and to the background and expectations of the Japanese protagonists. So the reader can indulge in casual sociology and reflect on living in Paris, or in Japan.
Despite its title, It’s Your World is in French. This is odd, and I’m not sure there’s really much of a readership in France for a graphic novel about a Japanese family (it’s small-scale, without have the depth or broad appeal of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis). I encourage French readers looking for light reading to give the book a try, but I imagine that It’s Your World would attract more readers in an English or Japanese edition.