Losing My Innocence

by Zeynep Oz

Imagine Holden from Catcher in the Rye, losing a big chunk of himself like the loss of his younger sibling, the protagonist here is a 16-year-old-girl who feels the weight of the world on her shoulders. But unlike Holden, she can't go around skipping class and making out in the backseat of a taxi because her loss has made her fear ever losing again. So instead, she spends her days trying to make the world a better place and her nights writing poetry about the agony she experiences everyday.

54 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 22, 2022

Reviews

[Salima · Rating 4 out of 5]

I felt this book in my heart
🖊️ We follow the journey of the author in this book a hijabi immigrant who went through a lot in life heartbreak/Islamophobia and so on it was so heartfelt and it made me cry because I relate to most of it even though I didn’t experience any of it,but to see what hijabis goes through breaks my heart I usually don’t like none fiction books but this one I loved,also the character growth was so beautifully writing and I recommend everyone to read it it’s not even that long just a short story and poetry.

🖊️ Non fiction
🖊️ Autobiographie
🖊️ Check the TW
🖊️ emotional

[Azan Shahzad · Rating 5 out of 5]

So good and very introspective.

[Faye 🫀]

An emotional and deeply personal meditation/reflection on mental health, faith, death & islamophobia. Read like a traumatized inner teen exploding across the pages & It was painful & moving