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You’re Not a Girl in a Movie
- Narrated by: Hala Alyan
- Length: 34 mins
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Publisher's Summary
"In poem after poem, there is raw emotion, straightforward storytelling, and unapologetic truth.” (NPR)
There exists, within [Alyan’s] poems, the cacophony that pervades our most intimate of relationships, a glistering sheen covering even the most banal interactions. Her poems feel as familiar as the prayers we make up in our own minds...they’re a quiet triumph, sacred and profane, and, most of all, grounded in humanity." (Nylon)
You’re Not a Girl in a Movie is a new collection of powerful poems by Hala Alyan, winner of the Arab American Book Award in Poetry and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In these nine extraordinary poems, Alyan wrestles with the intimate themes that have driven her acclaimed body of work to date: the aching loss of homeland, the image and worth of women, and the violence of love. In Beirut, Brooklyn, and roads in the American West, she unravels the effects of decades of war and displacement on love and human worth and identity. She speaks to mothers and grandmothers, past lovers and friends, and through her shimmering, wrenching glimpses of internal and political chaos, pleads for home.
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- Tahoora Hashmi
- 18-07-22
Brilliant!
hadn't read/heard such an amazing Poetry book in a while! Raw, refreshing and heart wrenching with the author herself pouring all her emotions in the narration😭💚
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- Anisha G
- 16-04-23
Perfect to stay hooked on repeat
The narration is love.
On repeat.
"Fragile"
Flowing like a river.
Like "droplets of rain"
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