Here, we are presented with one who mostly lives her life vicariously through the works of literature she has spent her life memorizing and over-identifying with. alone.” Exiled from the collective language of her homeland, she has no choice but to find shelter in the works her father read to her, hoping to recover some part of him in the process.Ĭharacters usually just exist within their own framework, referencing only themselves and their reality. When she arrives in Barcelona, it occurs to her that “there is no longer any ‘we’ to speak of. In Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s second novel, Call Me Zebra(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), a 22-year-old Bibi Abbas Abbas Hosseini, who renames herself Zebra, sets out to visit the sites her family passed through while escaping Iran.
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