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A review by nayaar
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
5.0
"forgive me please, famine back home."
It took me eight months to get through this because there were too many lines and entire poems that genuinely made me burst into tears. Tears for my own hooyo, for her hooyo, for myself. Like, Miss Shire really said it's fun for the whole family because after reading Lullaby For Father, I picked up the phone to contact my dad so he could hear it and maybe even cry for himself too.
Also, shoutout to the years I spent in Somalia myself; the amount of references and subtleties that wouldn't resonate with me otherwise is finally making me grateful for it.
It took me eight months to get through this because there were too many lines and entire poems that genuinely made me burst into tears. Tears for my own hooyo, for her hooyo, for myself. Like, Miss Shire really said it's fun for the whole family because after reading Lullaby For Father, I picked up the phone to contact my dad so he could hear it and maybe even cry for himself too.
Also, shoutout to the years I spent in Somalia myself; the amount of references and subtleties that wouldn't resonate with me otherwise is finally making me grateful for it.