this is so raw and so powerful because of its rawness.

let’s start with this: this is not a book you read looking for beautiful writing.
but to be quiet honest with you, if that is what you are looking for in this type of book you are not going to get anything from that book anyways!!

this book isn’t about the writing style or even the person telling and writing the book.
it’s about the people in the stories.
it’s about the lives and the areas around the world that have so very little and are so dangerous to live in.
this book is about sharing that in hopes that we don’t close the book after finishing it and do nothing.
i hope other people that read this are also at least unbelievable thankful for everything we do take for granted because we just don’t think about not having it (even now i’m the middle of the corona crisis most of not all western countries don’t really have it bad at all! we have food and water, shelter and warmth! we have our family, if not directly with us, near enough to be able to contact them, be it through technology or visiting them safely)

we don’t know what it’s like to really have nothing. have no idea what we would do if we didn’t know where our next sip of water might come from let alone a bite to eat.

and it’s not about privilege.
sure that plays a role.
but mostly it’s -as jolie also says in the book- it’s simply about where a child is born.

this book isn’t to make the reader feel helpless or afraid.

i think it’s more about shining even just a tiny little bit of light into very dark and rarely talked about regions of earth.

another thing that jolie mentioned in this book is how little americans -and other countries in the world- teach about the world as a whole or very selected little snippets of countries instead of an actual overview of the countries.

and that’s very true!
and jts so sad!
we are now more than ever an actual open world in the way that we can so easily travel or access parts of the world through technology!
but we still don’t learn about all those parts even just in a very basic sense in school.

all in all what i am taking away from this book is that i think we should all look i to organizations that help poorer countries and see if there are ways we can help.
not even with money but maybe just won’t spreading awareness, sharing what we learned and getting other informed so that more people learn about organizations that need help to help others.

and i think that is exactly what this book was trying to do and for me it did that.

as i said already, i don’t need the best written book for that because the truth doesn’t need beautification and facelifts.
it should just be told and taken for what it is: the true reality!

you don’t like that? don’t like how it sounds or what you read or what you are hearing?

Do something about it!

or don’t read this type of book to begin without