silenciadelumbrae 's review for:

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

4.0

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I have a lot of feelings about this book, but no clear way of wording them. (This may be because I wrote a full essay about this book, and I am all worded out.)

I really love the characters, strong and real and messy as they are. I love that there's no real clear resolution or ending for Darling, and that the story doesn't need there to be one.

It has hard and gruesome parts, and I really don't know why it needed

Spoiler

the child rape

, but it's an intriguing read. Don't let the length of time it took me to finish it fool you--it only took me that long because I was writing a paper and taking notes, etcetera. If you're just reading it for fun, it should catch you well before the halfway mark.

Four stars.