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A review by nightlight_reader
Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
Warning: this book is quite horny and I would not recommend listening to it at work.
I love how open Jarrar is about her life and her relationship with her parents and her cultures. I also think I gained a much better understanding of BDSM culture from this book, which I definitely wasn’t expecting. This was great in an audiobook format, although a few chapters will probably just read better in normal book form based on format and structure of the stories. (If you’ve read it, you can probably guess which one.)
I’d really like to read more about her relationship with her son in the future, I think, because it seems like a relationship full of love but also with strain. She talks a lot about her past but I’d like to hear her thoughts on the future, too.
I love how open Jarrar is about her life and her relationship with her parents and her cultures. I also think I gained a much better understanding of BDSM culture from this book, which I definitely wasn’t expecting. This was great in an audiobook format, although a few chapters will probably just read better in normal book form based on format and structure of the stories. (If you’ve read it, you can probably guess which one.)
I’d really like to read more about her relationship with her son in the future, I think, because it seems like a relationship full of love but also with strain. She talks a lot about her past but I’d like to hear her thoughts on the future, too.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Xenophobia, Medical trauma
Minor: Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail