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…to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being same to protect what is most valuable to you

“…that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”

Reading this in the aftermath of the UK Supreme Court’s decision about processing asylum seeks in Rwanda - and just read the chapter which references Gaddafi’s detention centre in Libya. Extraordinary stuff.

It is well written so far. I appreciate the use of multiple narrators - “othering” the main character so we only see her through other’s eyes - making us complicit, and echoing our real world approach?