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zombiezami 's review for:
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
by Mosab Abu Toha
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
I read this the day after the 2024 presidential election. I thought a lot about how the author is around my own age and, living in the same world as me, experienced so many hardships and horrors that I can only imagine. Like many people, I've been horrified by the ongoing genocide and my government's complicity in it, but books like this remind me that the Palestinian struggle for liberation has been happening for decades. It's books like these that motivate me toward solidarity.
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Mental illness, Torture
Minor: Pregnancy