#home is not a country

[flowerytale]

Safia Elhillo, from Alone, Home Is Not a Country

#safia elhillo #home is not a country #typo #typography #quote #quotes #novel #poetry #lit #literature #loneliness #this is so me coded #*

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Home Is Not a Country

YA magical realism in verse

about a first generation Sudanese girl who feels like an outsider, disconnected from both where she lives in the US and her mother’s culture, and dreams of an alternate version of herself who is 'better' based on the name she was almost given

when her only friend is hurt, she runs, and ends up in a dreamlike version of the past with her alternate self, and learns more about the father she never knew who died just before her mother immigrated

#home is not a country #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #this is good! #poetry is not really my thing but in audiobook form it sounds same as any other prose to me other than just being quite short and succinct #it is definitely a short book but it explores family; grief; belonging; and the meaning of home well #I always appreciate m/f friendship / no romance in YA; too (if brief because it is quite a short story)

[beas-mind]

https://x.com/kandakat_alhaqq/status/1780568574609777060?s=46

Link to a Sudan Action Campaign Book Club

Starting May 11th!

First reading: Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo🤍

A novel-in-verse about family, identity, and finding yourself in the most unexpected places. It tells the story of a teenage, Muslim, first-generation immigrant girl, caught between cultures, on a journey to face the ephemeral girl she might have been.

#not my book club #but I did join and sharing for anyone interested #liberate sudan #home is not a country #safia elhillo #book club

[mccoppinscrapyard]

My top books of the year and Honorable Mentions

#books #booklr #read in 2023 #year in reading #in my own moccasins #the weary blues #she gets the girl #swimming in the dark #clap when you land #maus #bi #an island princess starts a scandal #home is not a country #the secret lives of church ladies

[vulnerableagendaofdeath]

i'm sorry you got this storm cloud

for a daughter instead of the flowers you deserved

— Safia Elhillo, from Home Is Not a Country; "Mama"

#safia elhillo #home is not a country #dark acadamia quotes #dark academia #dark academism #literature quotes #light acamedia #poetry #poem #literature #modern literature #literary #lit #classic literature #english lit student #english literature #female writers #writing #writeblr #writers on tumblr #poets on tumblr #artists on tumblr #tumblraesthetic #dark acadamia aesthetic #academia aesthetic #art academia #art #spilled writing #spilled poetry

[bones-ivy-breath]

Mama by Safia Elhillo, from Home Is Not a Country

#safia elhillo #home is not a country #mama #quote #typography #aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #romantic academia #dead academia #original post #poetry #poem #poets of color #id in alt text

[veneerofwant]

#home is not a country #safia elhillo

[putawaytheglobe]

aisha throws her head back / to join the laughter / then points up into the night sky why go anywhere else / when we have all the stars

— Safia Elhillo

#safia elhillo #Sudan #poetry #home is not a country

[vintagehomecollection]

Traditional Country Style, 1991

#vintage #vintage interior #1990s #90s #interior design #conservatory #greenhouse #sunroom #wicker #house plants #terra cotta #tile #birdcage #traditional #country #style #home #architecture

[emo--chanel]

thank you for participating in this very important professional scientific study!

#polls #music poll #sweet caroline #neil diamond #piano man #billy joel #american pie #don mclean #take me home country roads #john denver #tiny dancer #elton john #mamma mia #abba #we will rock you #queen #holding out for a hero #bonnie tyler #jennifer saunders #shrek 2 #don't stop believin' #journey #journey band #poll #me #tumblr polls

[landsccape]

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[life-spire]

#curators on tumblr #cottage aesthetic #countrycore #cottagecore #cozy cottage #cottage core #forest cottage #country cottage #countryside #house #home #li_homedesign

[ryllen]

do u know that even the size of the different size of vegetables at another country amazed me because from where i came from they are all smaller and scrawnier

#to remind u guys if u're thinking about something naughty stop right there; the different size of the food served is also surprising #twisted wonderland #twst #sebek zigvolt #ace trappola #deuce spade #twst yuu #twst mc #fanart #do westerners go to asian country feels like they are served dwarf's portion #because as an asian; it always feel like we are served giant's portion; not exaggerating bcs we can never finish it #understandable because westerners can grow so tall so they must need more energy to burn #it's like if we order food; we asians always have to have a tupperware to take leftover home #but the price of the food in all the food places is so expensive it's reasonable the portion is big #i might ignite if paying so much we only get rabbit portion #anyhow i am just thinking of this because of the briar valley's big horse post #i do love to think everything is bigger in briar valley #the trees are all so lushfull and majestic like they all have lived a thousand years already #and the vegetables all just grow happily and absorb so much nutrient from the soil they are so big also #i was thinking of drawing e pel too but the space #while to people who born in this country feels things like these are normal #the thought of being able to be born in such a country where the produce all looking so big and healthy is such a blessing to me #it almost feels like they take it for granted; but it's just what they are born to #i have a nephew who is SUPER picky & waste food so much #i am crying everytime #yes y'all have a lot of food and good life here but h e l p #i'm sure the climate also makes vegetables bigger #i think i heard in winter plants stock more nutrients in their produce as stock for spring & summer #that's why winter veggies are better & sweeter and all #my country's vegetables are scrawny because the heat evaporates everything

[thesixthduke]

#country house #architecture #higginsandcole #england #dog #house #home #preppy #garden

[bones-ivy-breath]

Mama by Safia Elhillo, from Home Is Not a Country

#quote #safia elhillo #mama #home is not a country #typography #aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #literature #original post #Sudanese poetry #poets of color #poetry #poem

[veneerofwant]

#home is not a country #safia elhillo