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wchereads's review against another edition
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
“Don’t you ever, ever, in your life, umrik, ever, ever… ever forget us.”
I will never emotionally recover from this
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and War
Minor: Child death and Pedophilia
letsgolesbians's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
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Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Colonisation, and War
yasidiaz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual content
Moderate: Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Religious bigotry
nannahnannah's review against another edition
4.0
A Map of Home is the story of Nidali, daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father and the life she had growing up in Kuwait, Egypt, and then finally the US (in Texas, of all places). It's, as the goodreads summary says, "a loving portrait of [her] eccentric middle-class family", and eccentric at times seems like an understatement.
But "loving portrait" ... it hardly gets more spot-on than that. The book is touching, heart-breaking, and even funny, too, and sometimes simultaneously.
I don't have much else to say, because it's just written very well; I can't believe this is a debut. I learned a lot from this book, too, but that's a bit personal, and I don't want to go 1). "NSFW", and 2). into personal things from my childhood that doesn't matter to anyone reading this. But Randa Jarrar definitely has a talent for describing personal things in a way other people haven't before -- I've never connected to characters and experiences before like I have here.
Even saying all this, I've still given this book four stars instead of five just because of personal taste, and for the fact that I'm not sure I'd like to read this again, if that makes sense.
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Rape
magneto's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and War
jamesflint's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Domestic abuse
Minor: Rape
internationalreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, and Death of parent