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A review by leavingsealevel
Some Dream for Fools by Faïza Guène
4.0
First...I keep reading Faiza Guene's books on airplanes and she is far, far too good an author for that. Both her books are beautifully written, funny, ironic, enlightening stories of immigrant lives in Paris. Airplanes are supposed to be for reading fluffy formulaic crap about vampires and/or crime fiction and/or Downton Abbey-like-stuff in book form.
Second, it is awfully interesting to read a book about immigrant stories...as some sort of immigrant. Albeit a very privileged one. (Not feeling the "expat" label. Never have here, that's not how leaving felt, and don't feel like pretending otherwise at the moment.) A first for me, though I have read so many books about immigrant experiences to my country of birth.
Second, it is awfully interesting to read a book about immigrant stories...as some sort of immigrant. Albeit a very privileged one. (Not feeling the "expat" label. Never have here, that's not how leaving felt, and don't feel like pretending otherwise at the moment.) A first for me, though I have read so many books about immigrant experiences to my country of birth.