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sols314 's review for:
Other Words for Home
by Jasmine Warga
I started this book in audiobook format and that was the wrong choice. Sometimes poetry is meant to be read. The audiobook didn't translate the quiet spaces, the language barrier, the emotion the way reading it did. I couldn't get through the audiobook.
But reading this is a treat that you sneak on your cheat day. Maybe because I've felt like "other" before but it most assuredly is because of Jasmine's writing. A non-native speaker choosing to write in prose makes so much sense to me. She doesn't have the words so why make so many.
I think so many Muslim girls will be able to see themselves in this book. It is so important to have. I don't care for the audiobook, but the book was a joy.
But reading this is a treat that you sneak on your cheat day. Maybe because I've felt like "other" before but it most assuredly is because of Jasmine's writing. A non-native speaker choosing to write in prose makes so much sense to me. She doesn't have the words so why make so many.
I think so many Muslim girls will be able to see themselves in this book. It is so important to have. I don't care for the audiobook, but the book was a joy.