A review by nerdybookies
Refugee Tales: Volume II by Ian Duhig, Josh Cohen, Vahni Capildeo, Rachel Holmes, Helen Macdonald, Anna Pincus, Kamila Shamsie, David Herd, Marina Warner, Neel Mukherjee, Jackie Kay, Olivia Laing

4.0

Unbearably sad - and, for once, I mean it. Literally. Although narrativized, it is real suffering and pain which is conveyed in gentle dialogue here. Reading the refugee tales fills me with a rage at my own powerlessness in this cruel world. It is, inarguably, important to bring these stories, the human and humane and inhumane side, out into the open. But seldom have I ever felt guiltier about merely consuming other people's stories.