Status Updates From American War

i am always suspicious of men writing tomboys and their relationship with femininity/stereotypes surrounding femininity mainly because i do not believe this is something they are usually capable of understanding and unforch el akkad is proving why so far. “now dana suddenly seemed to her impossibly juvenile, and the things that held her interest girlish and trite.” hmmm…is that so, omar…

i am unfortunately already finding sarat’s (and yes the name thing will be coming up in the review) characterisation reallyyy hackneyed and thus struggling to invest in the fate of her and her too-good-to-be-true family. but we’ll persist