A review by han_reardonsmith
Songs for the Dead and the Living by Sara M Saleh

5.0

Heartbreaking and powerful, making painfully real the experiences of war and displacement. The complexities of the experience of arriving in “safety” is brought by Saleh into stark relief, with all that that entails leaving behind, as well as the new series of challenges and difficulties with which that might bring the arrivant into contact, and what roles that can play in new cycles of harm — harms embodied in interpersonal relationships and in the inscription into established structures of harm (in particular those of a settler-colonial nation state). Deeply necessary reading.