sarah_thebooknerd 's review for:

Blood Orange by Yaffa As

5.0

emotional sad fast-paced

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 This poetry collection was written after the start of the bombardment on Gaza and is emotional, raw and gripping. It goes over what it is like to watch a genocide of your people unfold while you are living in the diaspora. It also gets at the anger of having your gender and sexual identity be used as a way to justify it. I did not want to put it down and found myself reading some of the poems over and saving a few of them to revisit again and again.