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Chronicle of a Last Summer

Yasmine El Rashidi

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Sep 23, 2016 Beverly rated it liked it

Shelves: literary, africa, historical-fiction, cross-cultural, nevada, newtome2016

This was a 3.5 read for me.

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Nov 02, 2023 Tony rated it it was ok

Shelves: translated-fiction, audio, setting-africa, novels

I should preface this by admitting that I don't care to read memoirs -- for whatever reason, I just have no patience for them. So my struggle with this slim book is that it reads like a fictional memoir, unfolding across three periods in the narrator/author's life. The opening section is set in 1984, and our 6-year-old narrator basically just says what she sees, not having the context or maturity to interpret anything. She's clearly in an upper-class family, with parents who speak French and Eng ...more

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