A review by monat2
& This Is How to Stay Alive by Shingai Njeri Kagunda

5.0

a short novella that i finished in one sitting and the first book that made me cry real tears in a long long time… it was a kind of hard to get into at first but once in, it's just so beautiful -- the prose, the switching narrator POVs, the raw, heartbreaking emotions… overall, an incredibly creative, inventive exploration of grief, loss, intergenerational trauma, sibling relationships, gender/sexual identity, and mental health through the lens of time travel and storytelling.