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A review by thewordsdevourer
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir by
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
2.75
miss ex-yugoslavia is an informative memoir that explores the life of an immigrant that straddles multiple places and cultures - that tricky space of feeling like one never quite belongs anywhere - as well as shedding light on the yugoslav wars.
i like the way stefanovic narrates many of the realizations in her younger yrs abt the larger world, how it's more complex than she initially thought and how things nevertheless often get overly simplified, in addition to her painfully relatable and honest childhood + teenage inner thoughts and qualms. however, the book failed to retain my attention at points bc of the pacing - sometimes it's slow and way too detailed that it needs to be - thus making it a task to slog thru. for that, i cant fully say that i 'like' this book but it's a not-bad read anyway.
i like the way stefanovic narrates many of the realizations in her younger yrs abt the larger world, how it's more complex than she initially thought and how things nevertheless often get overly simplified, in addition to her painfully relatable and honest childhood + teenage inner thoughts and qualms. however, the book failed to retain my attention at points bc of the pacing - sometimes it's slow and way too detailed that it needs to be - thus making it a task to slog thru. for that, i cant fully say that i 'like' this book but it's a not-bad read anyway.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer and Terminal illness
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Medical content, Death of parent, and War
Minor: Genocide and Violence