A review by shane_the_reading_rat
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh

4.75

this was an incredibly beautiful book. magical realism isn’t always my thing, but i liked it a lot in this (+ all the studio ghibli references were amazing). i would touch on the politics in this book, but i think i’m just very much not educated enough on recent Syrian history to be able to understand fully. but just on a literary level, this is amazing.

(ALL THE CASTLE IN THE SKY REFERENCES i love Castle in the Sky, one of my favorite ghibli movies, it’s so underrated)