A review by bookreviewswithkb
someone birthed them broken by Ama Asantewa Diaka

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

thank you to @netgalley and @amistad for the review copy 🩷

this collection of interconnected short stories about the lives of Ghanaian youth explores the complexities of what it means to be a human being, our brokenness, the ways we hurt each other, the ways we get in our own way. how we navigate romantic, platonic, and familial relationships, through shame and neglect and trauma, through misogyny and body shame and low self-esteem

“there’s something about brokenness that makes you want to pass your fingers on cracked surfaces and trail them on their sharp edges, you know?”
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