Apr 4, 2026 Finally (unfortunately) we’ve reached the last book of this course. Despite some horrors I’ve read in the past few months I enjoyed experiencing the books, and what an honor to get the chance to feel all the ranges of human emotion through voices of characters from different places and times. I’m actually […]
Posted in Amadou Amal, Blogs | Tagged with Domestic Violence, Generational Trauma, systemic oppression, The impatient
Reading “The Time of the Doves” by Marcè Rodoreda made me feel lots of big girl feelings, I was intrigued, disgusted, confused, furious, and most of all just straight up sad. I think this book speaks a lot to generational trauma, especially in women. It reminds me of the type of generational trauma that is […]
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with Blue, Gaslight, Generational Trauma, sad, war
This was a very difficult read this week. I don’t know if it was the midterm stress or the context or length of the book in general, but I had difficulty grasping the nuances of Deep Rivers. However, I found the writing style flowed in a way that…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with colonial, colonization, Generational Trauma, Week 6
This was a very difficult read this week. I don’t know if it was the midterm stress or the context or length of the book in general, but I had difficulty grasping the nuances of Deep Rivers. However, I found the writing style flowed in a way that…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with colonial, colonization, Generational Trauma, Week 6
Joseph Zobel’s Black Shack Alley is a story encompassed with true raw human emotion and the brutalities of life. It was an amazing read, albeit there were heartbreaking moments of inequalities where I felt genuinely sad; Zobel does an incredible job of engaging the reader and evoking emotions. From the very first line, “Whenever the day had […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Generational Trauma, Joseph Zobel
