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Agree completely. I read this quite a while back and was utterly disgusted. Too many important topics to be wasted on such a shallow story.

Glad to connect with someone who feels similarly.. cheers!

yes

good to know there are others who agree!

Yes! I thought it was almost well written and there was so much potential for it to be a great book but I thought in her over-thinking and overwriting everything any of the characters did, it just came off as so pretentious and shallow. The booked left you no sort of understanding about identity politics among the Turkish or Armenian communities. The somewhat failed attempts at philosophy were also a bit laughable.

YOu got it Surinam..spot on.

Agreed! There was so much potential in this book that I feel betrayed. It's a fun read, and one that explores interesting ideas, but I'm sad that the author chose such trite characters to explore them, and to fall in such ridiculous twists that simply made me roll my eyes.
It felt unfinished and arbitrary, with many of the characters being purely instrumental. Different styles were mashed together in a way that gave the impression that the author didn't know what she wanted to do. It jumps from young adult, to trite magical realism, to historical fiction, and it truly goes nowhere with the writing. For a book that seems so bent on explaining everthing, many stories were simply abandoned and condemned to pointlessness. How disappointing.

Agreed.

Agree

which book would all of you recommend on the armenian genocide in place of this?

I Soooo not agree haha. This book is just really good. Finally a book in which the stories of women are taken seriously, among all these books with men-men-men.

Lauren Smits there is that, but In my view it takes more than just that to make it a 'good read'!

agree.

@Lauren this book is centered almost entirely around women's stories while also portraying these characters as sexualized, naive, competitive... these shallow depictions are instrumental at best, Orientalist at worse. This is not a feminist book. As for previous comments about trite engagement with identity politics, yes! Thank you. Feels like the author used these characters to explore a middle upper class Turkish sense of Armenian diasporic identity. Would be better to read novels by Armenian authors in place of this book.

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I agree with stereotypical characterization. I also felt at the end, the story did not leave me with anything. Felt something was missing overall and an emptiness in terms of the characters or the story was there. Almost like the book or I was unable to own something completely at the end. Overall, I did enjoy it for other reasons though.

Story was okay--makes me want to study Armenian/Turkey conflict, but I'm really glad I had a Kindle. I could look up all the food dishes she kept talking about. I admit, I was wanting the father to be, not a rapist brother, but the son of Sherim (?) so the two girls would be half sisters. Yeah, I know, melodramatic and trite but more satisfying that what she wrote.

Unbearably trite language. I tried (two times) to listen to it as an audiobook, but I felt like I was listening to a very mediocre book. I eventually gave it up.

I didn鈥檛 warm to any of the characters - there was no sense of emotionality or vulnerability, just long descriptions of actions and interactions. They never became real human beings for me, just characters acting out and hurting one another. Disappointing.