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challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I found this to be a difficult read emotionally and ended up reading it in small amounts interspersed with much gentler books. The author describes the realities of the Biafran war and the deep suffering of the main characters, who are by no means flawless, and those around them, left me reeling. I knew very little of the events in Nigeria at a time in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s just before I was born and so I did some factual research but nowhere I looked came close to the way the author portrayed the very complicated nature of this war and the human or seemingly inhuman acts that took place and the affects and scars that they leave.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence
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