foster_labrq 's review for:

Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

5.0

---

This book was so, so wonderful. First, the audio narration was perfect, and the reader really helped me fully connect with the characters—probably more deeply than if I was just reading it on the page. And it makes sense, given the subject matter, a production of Hamlet, set within an examination of personal experience and family history, which were also, to some extent, performances constantly dissected and analyzed by our main character. I was gripped throughout, as this story nestled itself in between the minutiae of the daily life of stage performers, and the enormity of the occupation of Palestine. The relationships between the main women characters, in particular, were deftly portrayed. The final chapter was both an unexpected crescendo and total crystallization of the entire story—it left me in awestruck tears.