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![]() Written in verse, Other Words from Home follows the story of Jude who is Syrian and is forced to leave her father and older brother behind when things become dangerous and volatile at home due to the ongoing civil war in Syria. What is wrong with you? Well, thanks to all the adorable pandas in the world that I finally read a book by her and it’s none other than her latest one, Other Words for Home which is equally stunning as it is heartwarming and hopeful. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is.Ĭould someone please smack some sense into me? It took me so long to pick up a Jasmine Warga novel? Please, Kevin. ![]() But this life also brings unexpected surprises-there are new friends, a whole new family, and a school musical that Jude might just try out for. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven’t quite prepared her for starting school in the US-and her new label of “Middle Eastern,” an identity she’s never known before. ![]() ![]() But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives.Īt first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. ![]()
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