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mayagbailey's review
3.0
i’m not the biggest fan of short story collections- some of these were really great and some were just mediocre- would give it a 3.5 ⭐️ if i could
wicked_sassy's review against another edition
4.0
An excellent and timely read--hard to pick favorite essays from this incredible group of writers.
truncarlos's review against another edition
4.0
No lo empecé adrede como forma de "educarme" en tiempos de BLM pero ha acabado siendo precisamente eso: didáctico y muy interesante. Hay algunos muy periodísticos, otros de crónica histórica y, mis preferidos, los autobiográficos. Algunos de estos últimos tienen un estilo muy bonito. El relato sobre la familia musulmana es descorazonador.
strawberrycakes's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars.
it's really difficult to rate such personal experiences with a 5-star-rating, so my rating is not so much for the content itself, rather the writing and narration of the essays (I listened to the audiobook version of this).
my favourites include:
- How to Write Iranian-America, or The Last Essay: Porochista Khakpour
- Sidra (in 12 Movements): Rahawa Haile
- On Loneliness: Fatimah Asghar
- Shithole Nation: Jim St. Germain
- The Naked Man: Chigozie Obioma
- Your Father's Country: Alexander Chee
- Skittles: Fatima Farheen Mirza
- 244 Million: Mona Chalabi
it's really difficult to rate such personal experiences with a 5-star-rating, so my rating is not so much for the content itself, rather the writing and narration of the essays (I listened to the audiobook version of this).
my favourites include:
- How to Write Iranian-America, or The Last Essay: Porochista Khakpour
- Sidra (in 12 Movements): Rahawa Haile
- On Loneliness: Fatimah Asghar
- Shithole Nation: Jim St. Germain
- The Naked Man: Chigozie Obioma
- Your Father's Country: Alexander Chee
- Skittles: Fatima Farheen Mirza
- 244 Million: Mona Chalabi
lsparrow's review against another edition
3.0
a wide range of perspectives in this essay collection.