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4.18 AVERAGE
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Graphic: Sexual harassment
Spoke to me in ways I did not expect and am grateful for
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What a unique, poetic, and powerful read! Readers who’ve lived through a marriage with a secret or a body with a complication will especially appreciate this memoir. In relaying the story of her childhood in post-communist Albania and her dysfunctional marriage to a man from India, Gjika paints a larger picture of making peace with and coming home to her body. I identified with so much of her lyric prose. I could feel the heady romance embedded in her long-distance relationship and in the time she spends getting acquainted with her own desires after divorce. Her reflections on the differences between being watched versus being seen as a woman resonated deeply.
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