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The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher
3.0
Objectively, I'm sure this is a great book. But character-driven literary/historical fiction doesn't seem to work for me.
I didn't quite understand the point of the blue skin. It's the title of the book, it's the main character's most stand-out feature, and yet it doesn't really seem to have much of an impact on her life or this story for that matter... (or maybe I missed something? I might have, I didn't seem to care enough about our main character to even remember her name...).
Then again, it actually shows that being a queer Arab Palestinian woman moving to America is much more impactful on someone's life than them being blue. That's pretty powerful.
This was actually the most interesting part of this story. Learning about our MC's aunt Nuha, a Palestinan woman fleeing her country, looking after her family, falling in love with a girl but letting her go for the sake of giving her family a better life.
I didn't quite understand the point of the blue skin. It's the title of the book, it's the main character's most stand-out feature, and yet it doesn't really seem to have much of an impact on her life or this story for that matter... (or maybe I missed something? I might have, I didn't seem to care enough about our main character to even remember her name...).
Then again, it actually shows that being a queer Arab Palestinian woman moving to America is much more impactful on someone's life than them being blue. That's pretty powerful.
This was actually the most interesting part of this story. Learning about our MC's aunt Nuha, a Palestinan woman fleeing her country, looking after her family, falling in love with a girl but letting her go for the sake of giving her family a better life.