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Review: Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jannar
Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar is published by Catapult Books.
Love Is an Ex-Country is a great title for this memoir, and fits perfectly with the content on multiple levels. It has some excellent chapters- "Inside the Yellow Line," "Imagining Myself in Palestine," and "Love is Neither Slave nor Pharaoh," especially.
This book also reminds me how much of reading is subjective. Jarrar is technically skilled, and has some wonderful turns of phrase, and it's clear that a lot of thought and emotion went into this memoir. I just didn't click with it. I don't need to feel like I'm in someone's head, or have life experiences in common with the author for a memoir to click with me. I'm not sure if it was the writing style or just where I am at the moment.
Love Is an Ex-Country is a great title for this memoir, and fits perfectly with the content on multiple levels. It has some excellent chapters- "Inside the Yellow Line," "Imagining Myself in Palestine," and "Love is Neither Slave nor Pharaoh," especially.
This book also reminds me how much of reading is subjective. Jarrar is technically skilled, and has some wonderful turns of phrase, and it's clear that a lot of thought and emotion went into this memoir. I just didn't click with it. I don't need to feel like I'm in someone's head, or have life experiences in common with the author for a memoir to click with me. I'm not sure if it was the writing style or just where I am at the moment.