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a gorgeously written novel with a strong narrative voice exploring grief and drugs and shame and messy relationships and coming of age as a young afghan woman. really adored aria aber's prose here; it read so smoothly yet is so vivid and imagistic. i'd definitely be interested in checking out her poetry after reading this one, although mainly i'm excited for hopefully more fiction from her in the future. nila's voice is captivating, and i both related to her in some ways and was also so worried about her the entire time i was reading this lol. but this was a good one and i'm excited to see what aria aber does next