A review by reads2cope
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return by Zeina Abirached

5.0

 An intimate look into the stress felt minute by minute in a war zone. While this could easily be a story dragged into the overwhelming grief and terror of losing loved ones and the stress of not knowing where the next bomb will fall, instead we are let into a story of love and care between people who might otherwise have been near-strangers. The care and aid shared by the neighborhood brought me to tears. How horrible to have so many loving neighbor introduced with their time of death, and yet with so much destruction, everyone did all they could to look out for each other. The small joys brought by sharing food and reading stories is exactly the reminder needed today that the only way through is together. This is exactly the kind of mutual aid I dream we can create before crisis forces us into it. We must organize today, as things are horrible in so many places already and may get worse quickly across arbitrary borders. 
I started this book after midnight when I couldn't sleep, and I finished it as soon as I woke up. Hopefully soon I can get my hands on a physical copy to cherish.