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The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
by Sarah Aziza
TW: suicide, rape, eating disorder, anorexia, racism
The Hollow Half is a severance and a binding. I found within it a sense of something being let go of and something else being held on to, although there is so much pain in this book. It is about her eating disorder, feeling dislocated from where you come from but also completely acquainted with the place where the bones of your ancestors are buried. The Hollow Half is a kaleidoscope of pain but also one of beauty. It is raw and inflamed as any wound, it is a wound the way a wound is an expression of pain endured, but it is also a promise to heal and to resist. This book is so deeply tied to generations of thinking about Palestine, about colonialism, about settler colonialism and racism and statelessness, about eating disorders and forced starvation and how sometimes, we only know how much we love someone when they've left us in this life. Read this book but read it with care.
The Hollow Half is a severance and a binding. I found within it a sense of something being let go of and something else being held on to, although there is so much pain in this book. It is about her eating disorder, feeling dislocated from where you come from but also completely acquainted with the place where the bones of your ancestors are buried. The Hollow Half is a kaleidoscope of pain but also one of beauty. It is raw and inflamed as any wound, it is a wound the way a wound is an expression of pain endured, but it is also a promise to heal and to resist. This book is so deeply tied to generations of thinking about Palestine, about colonialism, about settler colonialism and racism and statelessness, about eating disorders and forced starvation and how sometimes, we only know how much we love someone when they've left us in this life. Read this book but read it with care.