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jacquiek11 's review for:
The Girl Who Fell to Earth
by Sophia Al-Maria
adventurous
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
You have to read this! I came to it via the blessed Isabel Waidner and I'm very grateful. A coming of age story with identity issues. Her American mother sends her to the family of her Bedouin father thinking it will be a boot camp and she finds freedom.Finding an identity is more of a challenge, til she is saved by Bowie and turns to Ziggy Stardust and the powers of self invention.
The pacy writing and my interest in her didn't distract from the story of her father's family
'In a generation they had gone from migrating the peninsular with the seasons to living in windowless housing blocks.....But their nomadic instincts adapted to the situation and ended up manifesting themselves in new ways - for example, in the regular changing of interior decoration.it was seasonal: every few months everyone got together and traded their curtains and carpets to get the feeling of having a new room.'
The change impacts on the freedom.of the women more, or that's the way it seemed to me. The joy of being in groups of women is marvellous to read.
The pacy writing and my interest in her didn't distract from the story of her father's family
'In a generation they had gone from migrating the peninsular with the seasons to living in windowless housing blocks.....But their nomadic instincts adapted to the situation and ended up manifesting themselves in new ways - for example, in the regular changing of interior decoration.it was seasonal: every few months everyone got together and traded their curtains and carpets to get the feeling of having a new room.'
The change impacts on the freedom.of the women more, or that's the way it seemed to me. The joy of being in groups of women is marvellous to read.