jorjee’s Reviews > Before We Hit the Ground > Status Update

tend to ignore blurbs so i can read books without spoilers or being influenced by what it’s “about” but i have read this one & honestly very misleading?
not in a bad way but it’s not specially about elom & his boyfriend. i’m nearly halfway through and elom is not even out yet. it’s a family saga, the first quarter is about abena and kodzo. it’s really good and i think the blurb sells it short

clem lived in a heightened reality, where the world was constructed by her conversations - dramatic and hyperbolic… debates became “shouting matches”, tipsy friends were “wasted”

some essence emanating from the stove sapped their ability to talk in the same way the men did on the other side of the kitchen wall

walking between compounds and villages, finding dinner and a bed at the closest aunty’s house as night began to fall