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4.5 stars. Everyone told me this book would wreck me, and it did, but not in an obvious tearjerker way. Half of a Yellow Sun starts with the mundane but swells into action with uprisings, war, and turmoil that affects the characters you've developed attachments to during the mundane chapters. The book has a cinematic quality to it that makes sense, knowing it was later adapted for film.
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Difficult reading, but enlightening. I now know where I desperately wanted to send my peas to as a child....and why my peas were needed there, and why I should have better appreciated my peas. I was horrified to learn of this three year war that I knew nothing about. "The World was Silent When We Died" indeed. Adiche is a gifted author.
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Some of the details in this book won't leave me for a long time. Haunting. Adichie spends the first 150 pages building the characters, so when the war comes, you can't look away. You feel like it is your family going through this.
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