Pieces of a Whole

It’s hard. Every time I read a memoir, I would sigh and say this is my favorite. And then I’d read another one and say, Oh I just LOVED this one. With this book I just feel satisfied and full. As if I were treated to a full course meal: appetizer, [...]

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coming home to farsi

i was yanked into tara bahrampour’s book because of the farsi language. its cadence, its nuances, & decadent descriptiveness is mimicked in my ancestral tongue, bangla, so each italicized word was a shot of home for me. i loved bahrampour’s use of translation & her habit of illustrating farsi words in the text. there’s also [...]

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Reason, Purpose

Danticat’s narrative was viewed by me as a clever paralleling of disembodied story lines. The author begins by slowly uncoiling what promises to be a familial drama, told closely amongst characters that will progress evenly into the past and future. I expect, then, to fall into a similar motivation that I [...]

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