What other books did this remind you of?
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It's not so much that another book reminded me of this one but that it, Beautiful Country, by Quien Julie Wang, caused the same feelings and realizations afterwards. In my extreme naevite, I thought if a refugee wanted to come to another country and finally escapes all of the horrors of their old lives, they could move forward. I never thought about the amount of work it would take to assimilate into a new country. The financial hardships, the emotional trauma of losing all things familiar and experiencing entirely new types of persecution just never occurred to me.
I can truly see why Muna felt her situation was hopeless.
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