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i’m so excited…

very beautiful, vivid descriptions of palestine, of the fruits and the flowers and the almond and olive trees and the harvest. feel like you didn’t really get these when she was in kuwait or jordan. I feel like there was more inner thoughts/dialogue earlier but as she grows up it gets more detailed and mature. I’m sure some of this is because of the narrator’s repression as well as the benefit of hindsight

This was what it meant to be exiled and disinherited—to straddle closed borders, never whole anywhere. To remain in one place meant tearing one’s limbs from another.

reading at work is so scary because what if someone sees me smiling at dean

(reading a different translation shhh 🤫)

read nine, the first play in the book and i didn’t not realise how short they would be… really looking forward to how this plays out live as opposed to paper

Jean noticed how Andrew and Neil moved like they were caught in each other’s gravity, in each other’s space more than they were out of it, cigarette smoke and matching armbands and lingering looks when one fell out of orbit for too long………………i missed them so much….

they’re trying to convince me this isn’t the best book in the world

it’s not the summer anymore…..will have to wait 2026 summer i guess..

this book is so short i just keep forgetting i need to finish it. fave quote so far: “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”

imagine i read a real book instead

surely they both die…

the use of dorogaya got me so bad

i’m never finishing this reread.

dk which one i’m meant to like more

i hate it here

grades dont matter kadyezra do

okay continuing this 🤳 whos excited

U CAN DO THIS ? hey besties 🫂