4.25/5

Shibli excels at infusing the “mundane”, told through an innocent young girl’s perspective, with themes of love, squabbles, and violence. The prose has a hypnotic characteristic that captures the innocence nature of a young girl, yet the horrific nature of massacre and the endless well of grief shines through Shibli’s writing

While slim with sparse prose, TOUCH is a book worth reading slowly, marinating, and rereading