A review by dreesreads
Planet of Clay by Samar Yazbek

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

A Syrian war novel, but with an atypical narrator. Rima is a teen with selective mutism. She was pulled out of school and is seen as “crazy”—she wanders, and must be tied up to keep her safe. But she’s not stupid. She is creative and has her own ways of looking at things. But as those around her disappear, what can she do?