A review by abdulla_9955
Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine

4.0

This was an interesting one for me, with the different narratives that the book has I felt I was lost at the beginning and didn’t know who was narrating. But after a couple of chapters, it started to get better. The book was arranged as a collection of thoughts, letters, and speeches that tackled the Lebanese civil war and gave a rich historical and cultural background of the region, and also shed some light on the AIDS epidemic and gay community. The book covered many strong points on these topics and other topics such as art, love, death, family, identity, and nationalism but also cut the seriousness with humor. Which I found changed my mood towards the book in a good way.