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Yaa Gyasi, of June and intensity.

Of course, I never gave the book back but I did get something from it. You don’t know every beautiful thing, but you can decide to start finding them.
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Love in colour: a bridge between myth & life

If the 2010 Bollywood romance movie (aren’t all Indian films are romance?), I Hate Luv Storys, promised to show us why love is crap but ended up revealing how beautiful it can be, the book Love in Colour does something different. It promises to show you love in all its colours. And it does. The…
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A Thousand Splendid Suns… “that hide behind her walls”.

This week’s story takes us through dusty Afghan roads, sour lives and the faces behind burqas that have forgotten how to smile. Titled after a line from a poem of seventeenth century poet, Saib-e-Tabrizi, A Thousand Splendid Suns tells a harrowing story of survival and sacrifice. After fifteen year old Mariam finds her mother hanging…
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Transcendent Kingdom: much ado about something

Today is a happy day, here’s why; The first time I laid eyes on the novel Homegoing was on some book blog, a picture of the author Yaa Gyasi was attached to the side of the book cover as the featured image. I knew I wanted to read the book immediately. I mean, the book…
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