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challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
It was very well-written, it just wasn’t completely my type of book. It was a little too dense at times. And some of the characters are written a little ambiguously on purpose that it’s hard to get to know them. Some of it is a little hard to read, like uncovering what exactly the Cinema Silenzioso is trying to represent, but it’s still a very interesting read. It focuses on the lives of people living through the unfulfilled promises of their aid workers in a Sudanese refugee camp. They are limited both by their location in the middle of nowhere, but also by themselves and their cultural limitations. The midwife and Saba’s are always trying to force her back into the small box for women while she exists as a person in a masculine form. A constant question is, how can you seek your hopes or make new dreams when you have no opportunities?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Blood, Alcohol, Death, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, War, Animal death, Violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail
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