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When the World Breaks Open by Seema Reza

sonyahu's review against another edition

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5.0

Short poetic prose pieces narrating the disintegration of a marriage and other loss; so honest and fierce. Reza offers days like slides under a microscope, including love and longing, messy real life as a single parent, as the child of immigrants from Bangladesh, as the former wife of a man with anger issues. A beautiful keeper of a book.

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4.0

This book was stunning but hit too close to home. Dysfunctional families, death, abusive relationships. So many of us have been in her shoes and it hurts watching someone else go through what you know to be so painful.
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