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A review by labunnywtf
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
4.0
Girls who had been mean to me in high school would see me in this skirt and think, "Is that Scaachi?" and I'd say, "YOU BET IT IS, YOU DUMB BITCH" and then punch all their boyfriends in the teeth. (I have not thought this fantasy through; just let me have this.)”
I picked a funny quote to start this review, but it could've gone deep, could've gone introspective. Could've been about immigration, about rape culture, about feminism, about Indian weddings. This book hit every category, from hilarious to thought provoking to sad and sweet.
You will not only fall in love with Scaachi Koul, you'll become invested in her family. You'll love her hilarious and often curmudgeony father, her adorable and sweet niece Raisin, her extended family in India with their quirks and traditions that make no sense but they do them anyway.
You'll rage hearing about her experience with hateful and racist people who drove her from Twitter with death threats and promises of rape. You'll shudder with her stories of being roofied, and her pointed and well written comments on rape culture and the trials of being a brown person in a very white world.
This book has it all, and it's enjoyable from beginning to end. My favorite parts were snippets of e-mail exchanges with her father that ended each chapter. No matter how heavy the material, those could lift you right back out and get you ready for the next one.
I picked a funny quote to start this review, but it could've gone deep, could've gone introspective. Could've been about immigration, about rape culture, about feminism, about Indian weddings. This book hit every category, from hilarious to thought provoking to sad and sweet.
You will not only fall in love with Scaachi Koul, you'll become invested in her family. You'll love her hilarious and often curmudgeony father, her adorable and sweet niece Raisin, her extended family in India with their quirks and traditions that make no sense but they do them anyway.
You'll rage hearing about her experience with hateful and racist people who drove her from Twitter with death threats and promises of rape. You'll shudder with her stories of being roofied, and her pointed and well written comments on rape culture and the trials of being a brown person in a very white world.
This book has it all, and it's enjoyable from beginning to end. My favorite parts were snippets of e-mail exchanges with her father that ended each chapter. No matter how heavy the material, those could lift you right back out and get you ready for the next one.