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Christine Estima is the author of THE SYRIAN LADIES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY (2023) and LETTERS TO KAFKA (2025). Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times, Vice, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Observer, the New York Daily News, Chatelaine, the Walrus, Refinery 29, Bitch, Maisonneuve, and elsewhere.

Her short story "Your Hands Are Blessed" was selected for the BEST CANADIAN STORIES 2023 anthology.

Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/cestima

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I found out about this book from the Booker 2025 and I really wanted this to be more than what it was, especially because I've been to Kosovo twice and I have a huge interest in the recent 20th century history surrounding ethnic Albanians and the sie ...more
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This is one of those novels where I’m not sure it should’ve been a novel. I think it works much better as a one woman show or a dramatic monologue. This should be theatre. Novels like this and also like Sarah Bernstein‘s “a study for obedience,” like ...more
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I’m not exactly sure the hell I just read but it was definitely a page turner! Like some other reviews on here has said, lots of threads are left hanging and situations are completely turned around between part 1 and part 2, but somehow I bought it.

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Highly engaging, what a book, what research into such an interesting topic about the charlatans that populate the ghostly nether-regions and also how ghosts are actually so real for so many people. Loved it
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