Larissa Morshed

I think this book is very underated. From what I understand most of the reviews here were written by children forced to read it for school. As someone who picked it out of the shelves for herself, I loved it to a great extent. It gives a great outlook into the lives of the less fortunate refugees coming to first-world countries for a better life, only to be stranded. Their lives are unimaginable for us who get three meals a day and live perfect suburban lives. I think this book humbled me and made me realize what life is like outside of my four walls. Although this book is a work of fiction, lives of Rohigya refugees like Subhi and his family are no different and sometimes worse. They are persecuted for their language and culture, driven out of their homes or killed. Stuck in a limbo without a country who will accept them. Although some neibouring countries, mainly Bangladesh, have been humanitarian enough to give them a place. They remain illegal immigrants and are sometimes refused basic human rights in many places.