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Amal El-Mohtar
@tithenai
Read A MAP TO THE SUN by Sloane Leong last night & it's so beautiful & moving & the last two pages gave me this transcendent experience of tears that I usually associate with poetry & can't compare to anything else. Like dawn breaking in the mind.
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A Map to the Sun a book by Sloane Leong
A Map to the Sun is a gripping YA graphic novel about five principle players in a struggling girls' basketball team. One summer day, Ren meets Luna at a beachside basketball court and a friendship is...
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Amal El-Mohtar
@tithenai
There is nothing so healing to my heart as reading books full of girls & women talking to each other, even full of hurt, even full of fight & sharp edges. "To the girls that broke & built my heart" reads the dedication, & I live for this, this truth.
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Amal El-Mohtar
@tithenai
I'm going to be thinking about the craft of this book, its use of colour, the sparsity & care of its narration, for a long time. I didn't even fully understand what it was doing to me until the last two pages; now I want to understand *how* it did that to me.
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