notesofacrocodile 's review for:

Goat Days by Benyamin

4.0

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a heart-wrenching, desperate tale with a heart that aches deeply. the story of a poor immigrant migrating to unknown lands in search of decent wages to provide a satisfactory standard of living for their families back home is not unfamiliar, and this story takes it a notch further by rooting it in a specific regional context and mingling it with strands of very real accounts of such migrant workers. it's story that gradually seems to shed its hope in flakes, but only to reveal a heart that hopes all the more