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Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
5.0

Now the land had been pulled from under my feet and I wobbled in the unsteady terrain of refugees, struggling to carry on. It wasn’t like that for Mama or even Sitti Wasfiyeh, who had sworn she would never recover from becoming a refugee again... Maybe it was easier because the trauma of forced displacement was already well-known to them, and they understood how idleness and purposelessness could dull the mind, droop the eyelids, and seep too much sleep and despair into the day.”

I already can feel that the characters, the settings, every plot large and small will stick with me and replay in my mind. Abulhawa write such vivid and gripping details into every corner of this book, even in the most devastating and hearwrenching pages, I couldn’t look away or put it down.