A review by jess_esa
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

4.5

This is such a wonderful book. It's so beautifully written that I would be finishing it from page one. Obviously, it was written by a British Arab author and centered around theatre and Shakespeare —there was a lot here that I was going to connect with. But I really admired how sensitive and thoughtful this book was, how maturely it discusses the role of art in political resistance, and how deftly it weaved into political history and the reality in Palestine. It also really spoke to me as a bi-racial person in ways I didn't expect; the specific feelings of guilt and otherness weren't something I thought could be put into words as well as it was done here. I also chuckled at how tech week theatre drama always has the same vibe, no matter the scale of the problem, and the problems are *very* big in scale here. I highly recommend!