A review by kaffee_auf_ex
Butterfly: Das Mädchen, das ein Flüchtlingsboot rettete und Olympia-Schwimmerin wurde by Uta Rupprecht, Elisabeth Liebl, Alexandra Baisch, Yusra Mardini

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

This book is hard to rate as it's a personal life story of a person who's had it really tough. I think everyone should read this book in order to develop some empathy for refuges. I do, however, don't like the marketing and framing of this book. The quotes on the back are only about Yusra although her sister Sara is still a hero who fights for the rights of refuges. Yusra herself is just a normal girl who is therefore relatable. She also acknowledges her privilege. She's very apolitical person despite everything she's lived trhough which irritated me a little.

To sum it up: This is a story worth telling about a girl who did a really brave thing. It doesn't really adress systemic issues, which is okay as it never set out to do that.