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bhagyadw's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
philrobichaud's review against another edition
5.0
This book is a great look at the "other side" of the migrant/refugee situation the world is currently in. I wish that everyone who says "go back where you came from" to these people would take the time to really understand their story.
I first saw Nujeen on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and thought, "I would love to hear her story"! Some critics have lamented the fact that the book is written in a very simple voice, however i feel that this makes it really more real, in the sense that it feels like Nujeen is really talking to us, not being paraphrased and re-worded so much by the co-author or editors. You have to remember that she's a teenager who never went to school as a child and lived her entire life almost in her family's apartment.
This book is also a great primer into the past events of this part of the world, too many people don't understand the nuances between the different countries, factions and backgrounds of all involved.
I first saw Nujeen on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and thought, "I would love to hear her story"! Some critics have lamented the fact that the book is written in a very simple voice, however i feel that this makes it really more real, in the sense that it feels like Nujeen is really talking to us, not being paraphrased and re-worded so much by the co-author or editors. You have to remember that she's a teenager who never went to school as a child and lived her entire life almost in her family's apartment.
This book is also a great primer into the past events of this part of the world, too many people don't understand the nuances between the different countries, factions and backgrounds of all involved.
misspalah's review against another edition
4.0
"Since leaving Aleppo, we had travelled more than 3500 miles across nine countries from war to peace - A journey to a new life, like my name".
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This is a simple memoir written by A Syrian girl who are disabled and forced to fled a country. Despite not being able to walk, her courage to escape together with her siblings especially Nasrine, her sister should be lauded. I was particularly amazed with Nasrine, Nujeen's sister because she's never left her side. She's put up with almost anything Nujeen did even when Nujeen's bratty side sometimes comes out like refused to eat or being a fussy about things or just simply being a teenager.
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Nujeen shared her story of growing as a girl that was born with a cerebral palsy, she's often got the "disability benefit". She's got away with almost anything even when she did throw away things that her sister loved the most. Being the youngest in her family and having a large gap of age among her siblings, she's connected with adults more rather than kids her own age. She's usually immobile throughout her whole life and has to endure sympathetic gaze from her relatives and faced a separation anxiety whenever her siblings got married and left the house.
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Her parents stayed behind one of her brothers and let Nujeen tagged along with her sister and few of her relatives. The journey seems endless especially when they encountered few difficulties like a fraudulent smuggler that take their money but didn't turn up on the promised day or when Hungary was so unwelcome of refugees that they had to turned back and entered through Croatia and Slovenia.
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Overall, this is an enlightening read particularly on a perspective of a disabled person. Her bluntness did make reading this book a little bit uncomfortable especially when she's taunting certain countries that along of her journey actually give her a place of protection and security compared to her hometown. Maybe it's just her teenager side talking, I guess.
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This is a simple memoir written by A Syrian girl who are disabled and forced to fled a country. Despite not being able to walk, her courage to escape together with her siblings especially Nasrine, her sister should be lauded. I was particularly amazed with Nasrine, Nujeen's sister because she's never left her side. She's put up with almost anything Nujeen did even when Nujeen's bratty side sometimes comes out like refused to eat or being a fussy about things or just simply being a teenager.
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Nujeen shared her story of growing as a girl that was born with a cerebral palsy, she's often got the "disability benefit". She's got away with almost anything even when she did throw away things that her sister loved the most. Being the youngest in her family and having a large gap of age among her siblings, she's connected with adults more rather than kids her own age. She's usually immobile throughout her whole life and has to endure sympathetic gaze from her relatives and faced a separation anxiety whenever her siblings got married and left the house.
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Her parents stayed behind one of her brothers and let Nujeen tagged along with her sister and few of her relatives. The journey seems endless especially when they encountered few difficulties like a fraudulent smuggler that take their money but didn't turn up on the promised day or when Hungary was so unwelcome of refugees that they had to turned back and entered through Croatia and Slovenia.
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Overall, this is an enlightening read particularly on a perspective of a disabled person. Her bluntness did make reading this book a little bit uncomfortable especially when she's taunting certain countries that along of her journey actually give her a place of protection and security compared to her hometown. Maybe it's just her teenager side talking, I guess.
aurora_coyoteluck's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.75