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The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
emotional
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
"because that is what nature did to death, it transformed abrupt endings into a thousand new beginnings"
A creative exploration of life after mass death; human death, animal death and plant death alike; a meaningful prose that seeks to learn how memory can be harboured without its dignity, how history becomes the unwanted baggage carried silently by diasporas. pain- an unintentional birth right passed on from wounded parents. Grief- the human emotion most strongly attached to new seasons, new beginnings