Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Yasmeen by Saif A. Ahmed

2 reviews

danajoy's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes

4.5

This was not an easy read but it was an important one. 
She was abduct by ISIS at 16 and experienced all kinds of torment and torture. Now, reunited with her family 2 years later in a completely different country she is faced with trying to navigate the world after what she's been through. 
She grows into a strong advocate for women
but it is hard to watch her reject kindness and shame others in the same situation as her based on which denomination of muslim they are. 
The ending is happy, perhaps to the point of being unrealistic but it is much nicer to show the community banding together in support and their family prosper regardless of if I can completely believe that racism like that in their town would just be solved like that. I do recognise however that it's important catharsis for things to be good in the end.

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dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0


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