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'Melody' & 'The Water-Heater' stand out from the 4 i've read so far; captivating plotlines, interesting perspectives & a key disturbing emotional twist–in comparison I found 'Sandpiper' narratively flat & stationary, 'Chez Milou' hard to follow w/ SO many characters/relationships/time shifts

Soueif writes such tantalsing English prose as a female Egyptian writer (vs translated El Saadawi & Rifaat; Helal's poetry)

honestly the timeline of this is really something ive struggled to get my head around (starting to piece it together now i'm a majority of the way through) but good lorddddddd does the writing make up for that setback. ALSO if i had a nickel for every book this month about the queer SWANA protagonist's mother having something to do with a commerical airline disaster, i'd have 2 nickels.

wow

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