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A review by leilatre
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming
3.0
Doaa’s story is heartbreaking and unfortunately all too familiar to anyone who has been paying attention to the wars in the Middle East and the resulting refugee crisis. It’s also important to tell these stories in order to humanize the plight of refugees around the world.
Unfortunately the writing in the book is not great. Other reviewers blame the uninspiring storytelling on the multiple translations necessary for the author to conduct interviews with Doaa and her family. I’m not so sure, but it hampered my connection with the tale and that’s too bad. The book is written for a low reading level, but that’s not really my beef with it. I think the people depicted in the retelling are rather flat stereotypes instead of nuanced, complex people.
Unfortunately the writing in the book is not great. Other reviewers blame the uninspiring storytelling on the multiple translations necessary for the author to conduct interviews with Doaa and her family. I’m not so sure, but it hampered my connection with the tale and that’s too bad. The book is written for a low reading level, but that’s not really my beef with it. I think the people depicted in the retelling are rather flat stereotypes instead of nuanced, complex people.