A review by jwinchell
Freedom Hospital: A Syrian Story by Hamid Sulaiman

2.0

After much deliberation, I am abandoning this book that has so much potential to inform us about Syria and resistance. The super detailed double page of character bios did not get off to a good start- how am I supposed to keep all these people separate? The jagged black lines meant I couldn’t tell many female or male characters apart, and I wanted the story to carry the context for who they were rather than paging back to the intro all the time. Maybe I’m lazy, but I felt the art and the style asked more of me than I was willing to give. Disappointing.