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Dreams from the Endz
Dreams from the Endz | Faïza Guène
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Dreams from the Endz is the story of twenty-four-year-old Ahlème, who is spirited, sassy and wise but has more problems than she knows how to deal with. Her father, The Boss, is permanently disabled after an accident on a building site, her sixteen-year-old brother, Foued, has been permanently excluded from school and seems intent on joining the drug-dealers who share their estate, while she is left to deal with the guilt trips from their family back in Algeria. But when she returns home - after a ten-year absence - she brokers a kind of truce, both with her homeland and the need to forge a future.
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The narrator uses humor to offset the grinding, unrelenting uncertainty of living as a resident immigrant in France. The characters feel real . There isn‘t much of a plot. It was engaging for a novel where most of the action takes place off the page.

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Translated from the French, this book is about a family that moved to France from Algeria. Our narrator's life was hard and she was trying to care for a sick dad and a 15-year-old brother who was getting into trouble. Not a lot going on in this novel, but I liked her voice and her attempt at finding love.

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"It's like a poem, the way their family surrounds them with so much love and warmth."

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