Refuge: A Novel | 
pickSad, but powerful. Was a recommendation from my World Lit professor - meant to explore East/West connections, but ended up paralleling my life in many unexpected ways. Definitely needed some time to collect my thoughts after this one, but isn‘t that the best?
pickWhere to start? A beautifully written story of father and daughter, Iran, and the search for home. One of the best books I‘ve read this year.
pickI nearly gave up on this book, but kept reading to find a very realistic (to me) story of a family as seen through the eyes of the daughter and the father. Probably a bit too detailed and this could have made for a nice little novella but the details bring the culture and cross cultures to life.
Another gorgeous cover 😍
#coverlove
#ReadingOnRoam
Home with a cold today. I‘m hoping to pep up enough to read from my current stack of books. Refuge is on my ipad and not pictured.
Pachinko and Idaho have already gotten some ❤️. Here's another I thought was pretty pretty. #favoritebookcover2017 @allthebooksof2017
so-soI just wanted it to be over. I think it's because I have too many other books I want to read. 3.5 🌟
"How is the atmosphere of your heart?"
I wasn't sure about this when I started. But now I'm ALL IN. It's really good!
A nuanced and very human look at what it means to be a refugee.
#TBRtemptation post 5! Just released. Love this cover! 4.23 GR rating. A deeply moving narrative about a daughter & father spanning decades. An Iranian girl escapes to America from Iran. Over 20 years, she becomes an overachieving Westerner. Her father's stayed behind, & they only visit 4 times over those 20 years. As their lives diverge, they realize more than ever how much they need each other. #PhillyMeetUp edition! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
I ended up bailing on The Last Neanderthal. (I have no idea what a Neanderthal's thinking would be like, but the writing of Girl didn't work for me.)
So onwards to this...
pickOverall, I really enjoyed this book. The prose was beautiful, and several quotes throughout made me stop and think, which is rare sometimes and something I think should be applauded. The story is about immigrants fleeing Iran, something the author has experienced. I didn't know very much about the turmoil that happened in Iran, so it was eye-opening for me. But, I thought the characters were prone to being a little too stereotypical at times.
Some of the lines in this book, so good. Really making me stop and think about things for a second.
Interesting meditation on how the meaning of "home" is different for immigrants
Wow. That's a powerful statement about the main character. His drug use is the one element of the book I find problematic so far. They talk about it as an Iranian stereotype quite a lot, but it makes me wonder if the author is falling back on a stereotype a little too heavily for a main character
Sounds like a wonderful book about immigration about family love across the years across the world.
