Reviews

An Unruled Body by Ani Gjika

krempe's review

5.0

Spoke to me in ways I did not expect and am grateful for

xhadziadax's review

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

bibliophile1085's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

leilabp4's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

jmeslener's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

liridona's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

estam1's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

melissagopp's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

What a unique, poetic, and powerful read! Readers who’ve lived through a marriage with a secret or a body with a complication will especially appreciate this memoir. In relaying the story of her childhood in post-communist Albania and her dysfunctional marriage to a man from India, Gjika paints a larger picture of making peace with and coming home to her body. I identified with so much of her lyric prose. I could feel the heady romance embedded in her long-distance relationship and in the time she spends getting acquainted with her own desires after divorce. Her reflections on the differences between being watched versus being seen as a woman resonated deeply.

sittingwishingreading's review

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0