Mam mieszane uczucia

Łatwo się czytało, podobała mi się historia, ale..
Dużo jakichś dziwnych uprzedzeń i niepotrzebne wtrącenie o „autystce” i tych wszystkich „pedałach”…

This book is written in such an authentic voice that I can hear the narrator speaking to me, as if she were a friend sitting next to me or on the phone. She is an imaginative friend at that, spinning off relatable tangents that invite me into her world, the world of a fifteen year-old girl with a single mom who rages half-heartedly against her father, her schooling, the world. It is a clever story, a vignette of the difficulties of the real world, told with a hint of naïveté - not in the narrator’s voice or perspective, but in how things go from dramatically bad at the beginning of the story to dramatically good at the end. The book is easy to read but also full of slang and cultural references - both Maghrebin culture and pop culture in general - and also a little dated by the old technology. But the ideas are universal, and it was a very worthwhile read.

J'aimais bien ce livre. Faïza Guène est écrivaine avec plein d'esprit et douée. Son histoire est pure, qui le fait une bonne lecture. J'aimais spécialement la representation brute de la banlieue -- un lieu en Paris qui est normalement généralisé comme pauvre et louche -- qui était peint plus charmant. C'est une vraie représentation qu'on doit apprécier. Bien fait Mme Guène !

i read this book in a french class in high school, and my fondest (and only) memory of it is that we convinced our friend who wasn't taking french that this was called "Chief Keef Demain," and was a memoir of Chief Keef's time married to his first wife, a french woman (pictured on the cover).

this was four years ago and i am still laughing just thinking of it.

(this is part of a project i pick up every year or so where i review books i read a million years ago because i am stubborn.)