Alicia Afterimage by Lulu Delacre [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers
A mourning mother remembers the brief life of her vibrant 16-year-old daughter who was tragically killed in a car crash. She gathers the voices of her daughter’s friends and schoolmates through snippets of shared memories to...
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Indian-born, U.S.-, UK-, and now Denmark-domiciled Malladi is a literary chameleon, thanks in part to her changing addresses. Language, which features a young Afghan refugee woman escaping unnamable horrors under the Taliban, is almost like reading a sister text of Khaled Hosseini’s...
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