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The book is full of fairy-tale details: Adults are mostly threatening or absent, children are in perpetual danger, and nature offers moments of transcendence and almost mythological meaning, as when a pair of horses walks past Neko’s house as though she’d summoned them. The author’s own no-fault divorce, from a man she’d met when they were just 16 years old and stayed with for more than a decade, is described with many details omitted, but that doesn’t take away from the weight of it; instead, her restraint ends up feeling more intimate than you’d expect, like a confession from someone who values her privacy but chooses to reveal a telling glimpse of her inner life. Though the book largely revolves around spurious media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, El Akkad’s great talent is in showing how, over the past few decades, corporate journalism and western powers have undermined our ability to confront global atrocities.
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