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A review by the_grimdragon
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
"A book that doesn’t mention my language or my country, and has maps of every place except for my birthplace, as if I were an illegitimate child on Mother Earth.
Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."
Brutal. Haunting. Tragic. A lived experience of profound loss in Gaza.
Mosab Abu Toha is the founder of the Edward Said Public Library, Gaza's first English library. He was recently captured and beaten by IDF. Thankfully, he was released. Now, along with his young family, he has had to leave his home in Gaza because of the genocide taking place and is currently attempting to get to the US (his youngest son is a US citizen).
Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."
Brutal. Haunting. Tragic. A lived experience of profound loss in Gaza.
Mosab Abu Toha is the founder of the Edward Said Public Library, Gaza's first English library. He was recently captured and beaten by IDF. Thankfully, he was released. Now, along with his young family, he has had to leave his home in Gaza because of the genocide taking place and is currently attempting to get to the US (his youngest son is a US citizen).