CW: sexual assault (off screen), death, basically think refugee crisis Most of my review of this book will end up being a rambling discourse on who gets to write novels, identity-wise. This book, about a Syrian refugee who was a beekeeper in Aleppo and is now attempting to escape to the UK where his cousin has settled, was written by a white (British?) fiction novelist who, to be fair, volunteered in the refugee camps outside of/in Athens, I believe. Edited to add: she is also the daughter […]
questions of #ownvoices is mostly what dominates for me
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri


