Pillars of salt by fadia faqir discussion

Oh, how to review this book? I was excited to read this book given that it was a "new international fiction emerging voices" book from Jordan.

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I love reading authentic voices from non-western countries, especially from the Middle East, where we get too many western voices trying to tell us how women, in particular, there supposedly experience life.

And, well, I guess this IS one voice.

And it IS a legitimate voice. The truth is that there are a lot of women abused and subjugated by men, especially in villages, in the Middle East according to longstanding cultural beliefs, as well as so-called religious beliefs (uneducated men, totally uneducated in religion, believing that their misogynist cultural ideas are actually religion).

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And the book totally and completely focuses on this fact in its story, and it does it in a very lyrical, poetic manner. This, for me, was really the only strength of book (the quality of its poetic writing). There are three main vo