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The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
3.5

You can't just have your protagonist think endlessly about the same old "immigrant experience" stuff and then acknowledge it but not do anything with that acknowledgement... There's nothing new in this book, though the character work is vaguely interesting. The Centre could have been far more fleshed out, and the central premise around languages brought to the fore a bit more. This book felt like the author just had A Lot to Say and popped it all in one volume, lest she's never published again.