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Other Words for Home
by Jasmine Warga
Feel-good fluff which celebrates all that is tender and good in humanity. In other words, a good way to start the beginning of pandemic year 2, populist nationalism year 5. My book club couldn't place this story; me and a few others were convinced it takes place during 9/11. (In which case, Ms. Warga, "data scientist" was not a job title in 2001!) Others disagreed. I suppose it's left ambiguous.
This is a short, spare, kind (!) YA novel about a Syrian tween girl emigrating to Ohio. Much scenes of high school angst. Some scenes of awful Islamophobia. But people, the novel concludes, overall ain't so bad. Have hope!
This is a short, spare, kind (!) YA novel about a Syrian tween girl emigrating to Ohio. Much scenes of high school angst. Some scenes of awful Islamophobia. But people, the novel concludes, overall ain't so bad. Have hope!