A review by alec_120
A Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi

2.75

A very important subject matter about Syrian refugees, but the writing, to me, felt so stifled. I think it was because the narrator was “Destiny,” which could be a really cool concept, like with The Book Thief, except Destiny only inserted themself into the narrative like every 100 pages . Otherwise, it was just a distant third-person narration, so we get absolutely zero interiority from the characters, and the dialogue also just felt so unnatural.