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Just got out of Libby purgatory ❤️ to my colleague who told me her goal in life is to be a trad wife despite having a degree from a uni with a 7% acceptance rate, this one is for you!

read about 80% of this before my parents came to visit and it got autoreturned so im gonna review it anyways. wow!!!!!!!! such an all-encompassing history and systemic review of immigration policing. definitely a great pre law school read & see myself coming back for a reread down the line in my career. giving 4/5 ⭐️ bc i think some points werent fully supported though the conclusions were spot on. otherwise fab

friends of goodreads- is this one worth reading??? im 1/5 thru and find it significantly less entertaining than THG and find the writing worse in quality. asking bc idk if i should spend the time on it

Rereading for the first time since I was 11!

YOOO ONIONS AND LAVENDER CRAZY ITS LIKE AN EGO FACADE OF STINKY! I audibly gasped at the last sentence.

Leman Ypi as lowkey nonbinary and has an ALBANIAN democtatic socialist boyfriend in the 1930s… ugh my dream 3

‘THE DOGS’ CRAZIEST MF CHAPTER WHAT DO YOU MEAAAAAAAN THATS JUST IN THE BAG AND THATS WHERE THEY MEET CUTE WHATTTTTT

josh can attest i audibly gasped twice and that never happens

broooooo is a nazi and pedophile capitalist i cant

I understand Selma and wish she weren't coerced to honor her family.

Ch 4: Turns out the original red pill was the post-wwi economy 3

ch 3 im soooooo selma

I got rejected from my first law school while listening to the audiobook so

Chapter 2 really took me by surprise. The Albanian narrator, Ypi's grandma, is lowkey giving some major non-binary thoughts, which is interesting given Albanians' strict ideas on gender. I had no idea that Pelasgians are mixed with Albanians, or that Thessaloniki has Alb, Greek, Turkish, and Jewish influence! The leech arc, I feel, is Ypi's humor coming into play. I also feel that Selma is the moral lamp post!

With a prologue that nice, I read it twice. Ypi begins her second acclaimed book to a raw, investigative start. I love the repetition of "you're not from here" from Tironasit because I got the same sentiment in Tirana and that sentence is even more ironic because Ypi is born and raised Albanian. There's an intense tension between past and present regime behavior that Ypi explores, which has drawn my attention.