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Somia’s 2025 Year in Books
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Somia Sadiq
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Abu Dhabi, The United Arab Emirates
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The beauty of your face by Sahar Mustafah, the house of the spirits by Isabel Allende, and the book of form and emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
What Do We Really Inherit?
Naano, my maternal grandmother, used to collect teacups. Short ones. Round ones. Pretty, colourful, imperfect ones. Especially imperfect ones. Those received extra love from her. She’d even talk to them as if they were her friends.
My grandmother passed on a long time ago, but I still ask my aunties if any of those cups remain. I never felt the need to hold on to objects from my grandparents until Read more of this blog post »
My grandmother passed on a long time ago, but I still ask my aunties if any of those cups remain. I never felt the need to hold on to objects from my grandparents until Read more of this blog post »
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David - thank you! To bear witness to pain is one of the most sacred things we can do. I'm so glad that aspect came through for you.
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Thank you for these words! Here's to embracing our complex selves!
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"Intelligent, evocative and gripping! A beautifully woven tapestry of pain and comfort, of hope and loss, of the beauty and ugliness of the human condition. I worked hard not to shed tears transported in time through the eyes of a young girl growing u"
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"In a Tiktok video, Somia Sadiq answers "What should readers expect from Gajarah?" She responds by saying the components of the novel are not very fun, not pretty, not interesting... embarrassing and/or shameful but themes are all components of the "
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"It has so much vivid imagery and so much emotion! One never forgets their homeland which is how it should be!"
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Hannah your words are medicine. When I started the writing journey I couldn't imagine how I could possibly weave the complexity of human experience in
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