Real Life is an emotional, delicate story about real, ordinary life, about what real life makes of us, how life changes and influences people throughout their lives, how it makes them come to conclusions about life itself. It is a story about abuse, rape, cruelty, inequality, racism, (abusive) relationships, insecurities, religious fanaticism and primitivism, the …
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Isn’t it such a shame when a book starts off wonderfully: interesting, dynamic, original, just to continue and end in a completely different tone. By the end How Much of These Hills Is Gold lost all of its novelty and freshness. It turned into unskillfully written chapters filled with incredibility and tackiness. The main thread …
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This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
This Mournable Body is a powerful, gut-wrenching novel, a novel that leaves you with a feeling of uneasiness, a feeling of nausea, a queasiness deep inside. It is a novel about a lost woman, a woman torn between her family legacy and history, her own past, the past of her country, her own expectations and …
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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Is it at all possible to say that real life is too tragic? That anything in real life can be too tragic? That there can be too much tragedy? Not at all, because life is too often too tragic. However, fiction can be too tragic because fiction (although it can be based on real life …
A Literary Snob 