I spent an entire month reading her, which felt like being inside her head and it’s not a bad place to be. It was a much more familiar place than I had anticipated.
Author: Mim
While numerous literary examples explore this theme, contemporary literature often portrays themes of displacement, and alienation more tangibly. There are many outstanding works in the literature of exile. These books beautifully weave the theme of exile and migration into their narratives, offering a deeply satisfying reading experience:
“Soon you will be home, Mother would say. She said it nearly every time we spoke, and each time I said yes, I believed I meant it and not just because I did not know how else to answer or how to account for the fact that, though Benghazi was the one place I longed for the most, it was also the place I most feared to return to. The life I have made for myself here is held together by a delicate balance. I must hold on to it with both hands. It is the only life I have now. I would have to abandon it to go back, and, although I wish to abandon it, I fear I might not be able to reconstitute a new life, even if that would be in the folds of the old one. It is a myth that you can return, and a myth also that being uprooted once makes you better at doing it again.”
Her writing is plain but in the best way. The words are sterile and without any emotions, but when put together, they reach places in your heart, you didn’t know they existed.
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