This blog used to be called "Laura + the voices," and you'll notice that's also the name in the URL. The "voices" originally referred to my idea of talking about my own writing. When I started this, I had some idea of writing interviews in character "voices." And then I didn't do that, like...at all. Oops. Mostly I talk about other people's writing here! This blog has become more of a casual, almost therapeutic space for me to practice low-stakes writing.
Review time! Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow is a young adult novel by a young adult, so I was very interested to read it. There's also a #MuslimShelfSpace tag going around, and this review is a nod to that. The idea is that there's been a lot of stereotypes and anti-Muslim sentiment spread around, so buying and boosting books about and by Muslims can help educate people and break down harmful stereotypes. The author is French with an Algerian background, and Guène wrote Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow when she was in her late teens. Although the novel is not autobiographical, she shares many things with its main character. Doria, like her creator, is the child of immigrants and lives in poor suburban housing projects. Guène wrote that she realized girls like herself weren't really represented in books, and felt that Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow was a way to tell the stories of people in the suburbs who are ignored by the elites of French literature. Plot: Life Sucks, Until...
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