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A review by biblio_mom
Elsewhere, Home by Leila Aboulela
3.0
Elsewhere Home
Raw and emotional, its a collection of short stories about; a child of immigrants trying to adapt with her homeland, learning the heritage, a person whom adopted the land no matter how hard it is after falling in love with an egyptian, and much more.
I have mixed feelings about this book and its always hard to review short stories books. But her empathetic writings are charming.
My favourite would be about a Sudanese pregnant wife living in the West who sacrificed her social life, job, left her home to move to a foreign country to be the wife her husband wants to but only to find that her husband, admires foreign women much more and is beginning to forget his roots.
“But perhaps they cannot twist fate; perhaps I am not strong enough to hold him to his roots”.
Some Muslims doesn’t need to leave home to forget their identities, beliefs and cultures, some had found themselves in foreign country, and some only discovered their truest self when they embraced the religion of peace. Its always different to everyone but at the end, holding to our beliefs helps us from going astray. InshaaAllah.
Raw and emotional, its a collection of short stories about; a child of immigrants trying to adapt with her homeland, learning the heritage, a person whom adopted the land no matter how hard it is after falling in love with an egyptian, and much more.
I have mixed feelings about this book and its always hard to review short stories books. But her empathetic writings are charming.
My favourite would be about a Sudanese pregnant wife living in the West who sacrificed her social life, job, left her home to move to a foreign country to be the wife her husband wants to but only to find that her husband, admires foreign women much more and is beginning to forget his roots.
“But perhaps they cannot twist fate; perhaps I am not strong enough to hold him to his roots”.
Some Muslims doesn’t need to leave home to forget their identities, beliefs and cultures, some had found themselves in foreign country, and some only discovered their truest self when they embraced the religion of peace. Its always different to everyone but at the end, holding to our beliefs helps us from going astray. InshaaAllah.