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Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Darius the Great Is Not Okay is an okay YA coming of age, one that focuses on Darius’ relationship with himself (which isn’t great given his poor self-esteem), with his father, and with his first real friend. Readers expecting this novel to have LGBT+ themes or a romance subplot read may have to readjust their…
1st pov, 2.5 STARS, Adib Khorram, America, American, ANGST, anxiety, bullying, coming of age, Contemporary, cultural dissonance, Darius the Great Is Not Okay, drama, f/f side, family, fathers & sons, friendships, HIGH SCHOOL, identity, intergenerational, iran, IRANIAN AMERICAN AUTHOR, LGBTQ+ Author, lgbtq+ side, male authors, mental health, published in 2018, queer side characters, read in 2020, travel, weak prose, YOUNG ADULT -
Man of My Time by Dalia Sofer
βAfter nearly a decade of delirious revenge, rations, war, and death, we saw the world in shades of blood.β In Man of My Time Dalia Sofer makes a fascinating and unsettling inquiry into morality. The novel is centred on and narrated by Hamid Mozaffarian. When Hamid, a former interrogator for the Iranian regime, travels to…
1970s, 1990s, 1st pov, 20th century, 3 STARS, Adult, ALIENATION, America, anti-hero, brothers, CHILDHOOD, Contemporary, cultural dissonance, Dalia Sofer, existentialism, family, fathers & sons, female authors, GRIEF, growing up, HISTORICAL FICTION, intergenerational, iran, IRANIAN AMERICAN AUTHOR, loneliness, Man of My Time, MEMORY, philosophical, politics, psychological, published in 2020, read in 2020 -
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali β book review
Maybe I shouldn’t have read this alongside a book by Elif Shafak…a writer who brilliantly evoke multiple cultures and cities populating them with vastly differentiating, and realistic, people. Although in The Stationary Shop there are glimpses of a talented writer, the writing was incredibly repetitive with an abundance of clichΓ©d phrases and observations. The few…
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