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Mother of Strangers by Suad Amiry
DID NOT FINISH

dnf at 25%. the author clearly is more accustomed to nonfiction and the story telling didn't quite translate for this. i do know in the end we learn about the real people these characters are fictionalized retellings of, but that just makes dwelling on a teenager's sex organs even creepier. not to mention the whole desire to marry a child and the weird undercurrent where the suit maker thinks the protagonist is a child prostitute. just deeply uncomfortable narrative choices that had little to do with what the story set out to tell the reader.