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A review by middle_name_joy
The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye
3.0
Naomi Shibab Nye is a lovely writer, and her anthropology background can be seen in how people and their homelands are brought into her prose. However, The Turtle of Oman was rather dull as far as the story itself.
A young Oman boy, Aref, does not want to leave his home for American, where his parents will be getting their doctorates. The entire story is Aref putting off packing and spending time with Sidi, his grandfather, and saying goodbye to friends and the landscape. Again, it was all written in a lovely way, but it was repetitive and felt like it was just drawing out the inevitable.
A young Oman boy, Aref, does not want to leave his home for American, where his parents will be getting their doctorates. The entire story is Aref putting off packing and spending time with Sidi, his grandfather, and saying goodbye to friends and the landscape. Again, it was all written in a lovely way, but it was repetitive and felt like it was just drawing out the inevitable.