My #Top4Books of 2022

All of these books share a common theme of displacement, diaspora, the human struggle for normalcy even against all odds. Those odds being, of course, the pain and horrors human beings inflict on each other and usually on innocent people, for nothing more than a sense of superiority.

But then, there is the human need for community and how community comes around the table, sharing the flavors of home. Even in abject poverty, food unites.

1. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
2. The Beekeeper if Aleppo by Christie Lefteri
3. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
4. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

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