elle’s Reviews > The Island of Missing Trees > Status Update

Back from a reading slump, and man does this book know how to grip you straight back in.

"To immigrants and exiles everywhere, the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless, and to the trees we left behind, rooted in our memories..."

Okay I know 2% is like nothing, but unfortunately it's too late in the day to continue further forward. But I can already declare that I am going to LOVE this and that Elif Shafak's writing is beautiful.