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No Land to Light On
by Yara Zgheib
Reading this during the Second Trump Coup was particularly painful as it's all happening again now: the nauseatingly fevered mass abductions & imprisonment of immigrants, and now of "legal" citizens/residents.
This novel provided a moving portrait of one family's experience of this forced separation, and of their prior migration and reasons for it; it shed light on the violence in Syria and the awful conditions it caused for the people there.
The bits that were focused on Sama and Hadi and their direct experiences were the most compelling, and the bits about bird migration were interesting on there own but interrupted the narrative and the urgency of the human story at the center of this novel, as did the many flowery and dreamy descriptions and sections, at least for me.
This novel provided a moving portrait of one family's experience of this forced separation, and of their prior migration and reasons for it; it shed light on the violence in Syria and the awful conditions it caused for the people there.
The bits that were focused on Sama and Hadi and their direct experiences were the most compelling, and the bits about bird migration were interesting on there own but interrupted the narrative and the urgency of the human story at the center of this novel, as did the many flowery and dreamy descriptions and sections, at least for me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, War