A review by bites_of_books
Body Kintsugi by Senka Marić

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Just like a piece of ceramics that was broken and put back together, this short novel is told in small chapters with short and matter-of-fact sentences filled with beautiful language that evokes the feelings that the main character is experiencing as she learns that she has breast cancer and all the treatments that she must endure. 

As someone who works in the cancer field, I always appreciate a book that can give me perspective on what patients are going through. This one does that and more! It also goes into themes of self-perception, self-love, identity, and perseverance. Ideas about gender and what womanhood means bloom from this book. 

I'm quite surprised that even though it's only 165 pages long, there are nuanced and deep ideas about illness, womanhood, time, life, and death. I particularly loved the chapters where Amazon warriors come to her in dreams, beautiful, powerful, and thought inducing. 

I'd highly recommend! 
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