#if it's only for me? i'm not uplifting anyone else right along. Yara has her daughters and at least she has her love for them
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Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
#illy talks#this book is both very relatable and also so heartbreaking as a small reflection of what is happening rn#like as an immigrant i totally relate to Yara and her anger about not feeling like she's done what she wanted with her life#she set out to break cycles but like at least how I relate to it is what cycle am i breaking#if it's only for me? i'm not uplifting anyone else right along. Yara has her daughters and at least she has her love for them#but ugh idk also love her random intrusive thoughts like she thinks like me just randomly wishing violence upon someone when they piss you#off. and then realizing that maybe that isn't normal and seeking help and then feeling like help isnt... helping#ugh#such a good book#evil eye#etaf rum#books#also this passage! hit me because she's asking her grandmother about ever going back to palestine#and i can only imagine that heartache but damn does this author just know how to write it#and this narrator (cause audio + reading it this time) just breaks my heart how she's describing what she remembers and some good and bad#she remembers the sparkling water of the Dead Sea but also being surrounded by the smell of death and rot#she remembers her own father not wnating to settle the tent into a hut because that means giving up their home#their real home and making the camp their home#and the KEY! SHE KEPT THE KEY TO THEIR HOUSE SO THEY CAN GO BACK and three generations later and they've not gone back#:( i really recommend this book it's written beautifully
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