A review by bookreviewswithkb
The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems by Hala Alyan

challenging emotional reflective sad

5.0

thank you @netgalley and @eccobooks for the early copy! publishing date is March 12, 2024

i will read anything Hala Alyan writes. she is an absolute master with words, her writing destroying my heart and burying into my soul. this collection is breathtaking, moving, all encompassing. it’s a reflection on grief and identity and Palestine and love and displacement 

“Be lucky. Try to make it to the morning. Try to find your heart in the newsprint. Please. I’d rather be alive than holy. I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing.”

love love love. an absolute must-read 
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