A review by noursie22
The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton

2.0

I want to give this book a better rating because it is beautifully written. It took me a long time to read, the writer demands so much emotionally (especially from Egyptians, who were there, who know, who experienced what is written). I need to take the time parse out why this book makes me uneasy, and perhaps I can't say that I 'liked it' because it was so difficult to get through and while the fracturing felt very real and relatable, the writing felt like it stood on its emotional triggering alone (for me), and I had a hard time dividing myself from that without dissociating basically from the text.