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 My Rating-5/5

Publishing Date-May 2022

Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with the Advance Review Copy of this book. This was one of those books that piqued my interest from the synopsis itself.

In this book, a journalist after two decades of news reporting revisits some of the people who she had interviewed earlier and tried to show her readers the impact of their respective traumatic experiences.

    This book is a collection of ten different stories. All these stories will tug at your heartstrings and make you wonder about God’s justice system as you will come across real-life stories in which honest people are unjustly punished while at the same time, people who are deserving of the harshest punishment possible roam free.

  The person from whom I got inspired the most was the story of Zaina, who even after suffering extensive trauma at such a tender age, took steps and is still working towards changing the circumstances around her so that nobody else has to ever go through the suffering that she endured.

   This book, although triggering in parts will rekindle your faith in humanity as you would realise that these people even after going through so much that they didn’t deserve to go through in the first place while trying to move on and achieve a better life for themselves, are also trying to bring about a change in the society so that the history does not repeat itself.

  Lastly, I highly commend the effort taken by the author to reconnect with the survivors of those highly devastating circumstances, especially during the pandemic period when dread and uncertainty surrounded us and it was difficult to think about any other person except our immediate family and their safety. This book will serve as a reminder that what we see on the news is just a part of the story and not the whole story.