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horses was an amazing story, and honestly, if you wanted to read a book that had those old realistic fiction middle grade and ya vibes that an advanced reader would read in 3rd-5th grade, it's got those vibes. heidi north-bailey is my second favorite author in this collection so far, second to the fantastic yewande omotoso, with her amazing grasp on sexuality and relationships. would love to read their books
— Oct 29, 2024 10:56AM
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Sadifura
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mansoura ez-eldin's "light rain", a surrealist, postmodern story both literally about a woman opening the door from attending an art museum to finding herself back in egypt, where there is a war (or not a war) going on, and figuratively about war, genocide, and refugee survivors and the ptsd that those who have faced it once, or more than once, experience. very relevant re: palestine
— Oct 31, 2024 02:18PM
Sadifura
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daniel alarcon's "absence" is something i have to read for class, but i felt...deeply impacted by it. the impact of language within stories is something that fascinates me; the death of language is practically the death of a culture, an identity, and wari is experiencing that very much in the story. he feels like he has two split selves, each dying; one that wants new york, and one that wants to be in peru.
— Oct 31, 2024 02:12PM
Sadifura
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THAT PLOT TWIST THIS IS WHAT GOOD LITERARY NETORARE IS. NETORARE CAN BE GOOD, AS A MEMBER OF MY DIAMOUR SYSTEM HAS SAID BEFORE. GOOD ON AYSE FOR GETTING WITH HAMZA WHILE MUSTAFA WAS AWAY. HE *DID* TREAT HER BETTER THAN MUSTAFA EVEN THOUGH SHE DOESN'T SPEAK SYRIAN ARABIC. OH MY GOD. I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED THE ENDING. QUEEN SHIT, AYSE QUEEN SHIT
— Oct 31, 2024 01:52PM
Sadifura
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the shift of perspective to hamza, the survivor of the arab spring in syria, and ayse, the barren wife slowly discovering her sexuality and disidentification with the local women, lewd and orientalist about hamza's syrian heritage, added much more FASCINATING layers to this story. alice melike ulgezer's nuanced touch to the arab spring and syrian men in particular, a thing many people lack, is so amazing
— Oct 31, 2024 01:47PM
Sadifura
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alice knows locker room and "just boys" talk SOOOOOO well. she is SO accurate at characterizing what goes on in barbers shops and other implicit "men's only spaces/boy's clubs"; i've seen the conversations the men have at activision blizzard about their women, i KNOW this woman has heard some stuff from the men in her life. or at least suspected. god there are so many underrated writers in this collection
— Oct 31, 2024 01:40PM
Sadifura
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OH MY GOD HIS RINGTONE OF A CRYING BABY FOR HIS FAMILY NUMBER IS A DOUBLE WHAMMY. CRYING BABY BECAUSE HE CONSIDERS HIS WIFE AND FAMILY NOTHING BUT WHINERS EVEN THOUGH HE'S BETTER OFF THAN THEM AND CLEARLY FAIRLY PRIVILEGED, BUT ALSO BECAUSE HIS WIFE IS INFERTILE AND CAN'T HAVE KIDS (AND IT DOESN'T EVEN SEEM LIKE MUSTAFA WANTS KIDS HE JUST WANTS THE STATUS THAT COMES WITH IT) WHAT AN ASSHOLE
— Oct 31, 2024 01:37PM
