peytonaaa 's review for:

Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

5.0

emotional reflective

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"Our trip to meet him in Bethlehem in the summer of 1994 remained a significant memory for me, pregnant with meaning and revelation, largely because it was my first contact with a very particular range of ­emotion – and now I hated myself for treating experience like this, like a colour palette. The vanished possibility of Rashid’s life was appalling. It shoved me violently from the centre of my world to its edges. What I thought had happened was totally wrong, it was clashing against the reality, which had carried on without me, without my awareness. Or, rather, had not carried on at all. There was I, taking it for granted that his life had kept on going, when in fact I’d met him at the end of it. There had been no thereafter."