A review by ncchris
Take What You Can Carry by Gian Sardar

4.0

This was a slow start for me. I almost DNF’d it, but about 3/4 of the way through, it suddenly picked up and roared! I couldn’t put it down after that. The trauma when Olivia gets home without Delan, who stays behind in Kurdistan/Iraq, how she struggles with the developing of the roll of film - it’s so human and well written! There’s a sort of non-ending that left me mildly disappointed, but only because I didn’t want the story to end. Give this book a chance. It was a really interesting and, with a little work, engaging look at Kurdish oppression in late-70s Iraq.