I finished reading the sensational Salma El-Wardany’s debut novel “These Impossible Things” this week and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
This book is literary magic. Her words are enchantingly chosen. Simultaneously vulnerable and powerful. Each page welcomes the reader to wade deeper and deeper into the lives, hearts, and stories of 3 phenomenal women, until you are fully immersed in their experiences. Now that I have read it cover to cover, I genuinely miss the spirited Jenna, the earnest Bilquis, and the audacious Malak.
I feel an intense connection to Malak’s story. I found myself weeping with her, forgiving myself with her, learning to love myself as I am with her, and continuing to move forward with her as life carries on around us (as it always does). I realize this book is a work of fiction, but whomever these characters are inspired by, I hope and pray those women are thriving in their lives today.
While studios rarely do books the justice they deserve, I would love to see this become a film brought to life and fully created by brilliant, powerful, mesmerizing women for many reasons, not the least of which is that we need more women having creative control of the content consumed by and telling the stories of women. But also so that the women out there who do not feel seen, heard, understood, or loved can see themselves in the brilliant, powerful, and mesmerizing women both in the story and creating the stories.
I genuinely do not know what I will read next because I wonder what else might make me feel as seen and understood as these pages. The struggles we face as women and the imperative to carry each other through the darkest times is too often ignored in storytelling. Instead of uplifting each other, we are all waiting for a prince to save us and end up fighting over the same wannabes who do not meet even the lowest of standards.
Salma shows us how much stronger we are when we bond together, in sisterhood. I truly hope we have not heard the last from her.
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Brilliant, Magical, and NEEDED Storytelling
I finished reading the sensational Salma El-Wardany’s debut novel “These Impossible Things” this week and I cannot recommend it highly enough.This book is literary magic. Her words are enchantingly chosen. Simultaneously vulnerable and powerful. Each page welcomes the reader to wade deeper and deeper into the lives, hearts, and stories of 3 phenomenal women, until you are fully immersed in their experiences. Now that I have read it cover to cover, I genuinely miss the spirited Jenna, the earnest Bilquis, and the audacious Malak.I feel an intense connection to Malak’s story. I found myself weeping with her, forgiving myself with her, learning to love myself as I am with her, and continuing to move forward with her as life carries on around us (as it always does). I realize this book is a work of fiction, but whomever these characters are inspired by, I hope and pray those women are thriving in their lives today.While studios rarely do books the justice they deserve, I would love to see this become a film brought to life and fully created by brilliant, powerful, mesmerizing women for many reasons, not the least of which is that we need more women having creative control of the content consumed by and telling the stories of women. But also so that the women out there who do not feel seen, heard, understood, or loved can see themselves in the brilliant, powerful, and mesmerizing women both in the story and creating the stories.I genuinely do not know what I will read next because I wonder what else might make me feel as seen and understood as these pages. The struggles we face as women and the imperative to carry each other through the darkest times is too often ignored in storytelling. Instead of uplifting each other, we are all waiting for a prince to save us and end up fighting over the same wannabes who do not meet even the lowest of standards.Salma shows us how much stronger we are when we bond together, in sisterhood. I truly hope we have not heard the last from her.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2022
This book is literary magic. Her words are enchantingly chosen. Simultaneously vulnerable and powerful. Each page welcomes the reader to wade deeper and deeper into the lives, hearts, and stories of 3 phenomenal women, until you are fully immersed in their experiences. Now that I have read it cover to cover, I genuinely miss the spirited Jenna, the earnest Bilquis, and the audacious Malak.
I feel an intense connection to Malak’s story. I found myself weeping with her, forgiving myself with her, learning to love myself as I am with her, and continuing to move forward with her as life carries on around us (as it always does). I realize this book is a work of fiction, but whomever these characters are inspired by, I hope and pray those women are thriving in their lives today.
While studios rarely do books the justice they deserve, I would love to see this become a film brought to life and fully created by brilliant, powerful, mesmerizing women for many reasons, not the least of which is that we need more women having creative control of the content consumed by and telling the stories of women. But also so that the women out there who do not feel seen, heard, understood, or loved can see themselves in the brilliant, powerful, and mesmerizing women both in the story and creating the stories.
I genuinely do not know what I will read next because I wonder what else might make me feel as seen and understood as these pages. The struggles we face as women and the imperative to carry each other through the darkest times is too often ignored in storytelling. Instead of uplifting each other, we are all waiting for a prince to save us and end up fighting over the same wannabes who do not meet even the lowest of standards.
Salma shows us how much stronger we are when we bond together, in sisterhood. I truly hope we have not heard the last from her.
Brilliant, Magical, and NEEDED Storytelling
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2022
I finished reading the sensational Salma El-Wardany’s debut novel “These Impossible Things” this week and I cannot recommend it highly enough.Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2022
This book is literary magic. Her words are enchantingly chosen. Simultaneously vulnerable and powerful. Each page welcomes the reader to wade deeper and deeper into the lives, hearts, and stories of 3 phenomenal women, until you are fully immersed in their experiences. Now that I have read it cover to cover, I genuinely miss the spirited Jenna, the earnest Bilquis, and the audacious Malak.
I feel an intense connection to Malak’s story. I found myself weeping with her, forgiving myself with her, learning to love myself as I am with her, and continuing to move forward with her as life carries on around us (as it always does). I realize this book is a work of fiction, but whomever these characters are inspired by, I hope and pray those women are thriving in their lives today.
While studios rarely do books the justice they deserve, I would love to see this become a film brought to life and fully created by brilliant, powerful, mesmerizing women for many reasons, not the least of which is that we need more women having creative control of the content consumed by and telling the stories of women. But also so that the women out there who do not feel seen, heard, understood, or loved can see themselves in the brilliant, powerful, and mesmerizing women both in the story and creating the stories.
I genuinely do not know what I will read next because I wonder what else might make me feel as seen and understood as these pages. The struggles we face as women and the imperative to carry each other through the darkest times is too often ignored in storytelling. Instead of uplifting each other, we are all waiting for a prince to save us and end up fighting over the same wannabes who do not meet even the lowest of standards.
Salma shows us how much stronger we are when we bond together, in sisterhood. I truly hope we have not heard the last from her.
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