Against the Loveless World (2020)-Susan Abulhawa

"Spanning multiple decades and three countries, Against the Loveless World follows Nahr, the daughter of Palestinian refugees in Kuwait. Nahr's main concern is providing for her family, by any means at her disposal. Her plans of being her family’s savior, however, are uprooted by Sadeem Husain’s invasion of Kuwait and the displacement of Palestinian Kuwaitis that follows. From there, Nahr is torn between her identities that stretch across borders and pushed out of each place she finds comfort. Everything about this novel is compelling and unabashedly radical in its message. It denounces oppression and occupation by means of showing the realities of those who are occupied or displaced by colonialism, all told through the perspective of a brilliantly written character."

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