fiandaca 's review for:

Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste

4.0

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Although the writing was occasionally a little rough or awkward, by the time the book took off, it had smoothed out. Mengiste tells a very harrowing story about a family living through the Red Terror during the Ethiopian revolution. The descriptions of torture and dead bodies are not for the faint of heart (nor for those who then have vivid nightmares about what they stay up late reading).