{"id":1790,"date":"2024-03-18T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/amoderndayshair\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2024-03-17T23:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T03:44:24","slug":"book-review-blood-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/amoderndayshair\/2024\/03\/book-review-blood-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Blood Orange"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

There\u2019s a book I\u2019ve wanted to read for a while:\u00a0Blood Orange<\/em><\/a>, by Yaffa AS.<\/strong> Just read the summary and you will know why.<\/p>\n

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• \nFormat:<\/strong> 65 pages, Paperback.<\/li>\nPublished: <\/strong>November 13, 2023, by Meraj Publishing.<\/li>\nGenres and Tags: <\/strong>Poetry, social commentary, nonfiction, Palestine, genocide, mental health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n "
  
  \u201cBlood Orange\u201d is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They\/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against the background of ongoing displacement and genocide of indigenous Palestinians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
  
  Yaffa has a way with words that, if they are simple, is just so the message is clearer. They don\u2019t use obscure terms to look intelligent and profound. They are already, and just care about people actually knowing what they\u2019re talking about. That\u2019s one of the main beauties of his poetry, how direct, yet artistic, their hand can be.<\/p>\n
  
  Although crude and full of blood, tears, and despair, Blood Orange also has hope, dreams, and joy. It\u2019s a complicated book with complicated feelings that describe what it is like to be Palestinian<\/del> Falastin, and neuro-divergent, and queer, and diaspora. It lays bare all those experiences, all that pain, all that joy, creating a colorful tapestry that shows Yaffa\u2019s and Palestine\u2019s reality, a reality that is far from perfect, but celebrates life in the middle of genocide.<\/p>\n
  
  However, it is<\/em> graphic. A book that shares this type of content cannot conceal or sugarcoat in any decent way the part that we abhor, that a whole culture is being massacred in front of millions, but still fighting back in any way they can. Each poems shows some part of it, some pain or celebration, some memories and hopes, but also the nightmares and trauma.<\/p>\n
  
  I do wish it had been a longer, more extensive book, but due to its nature I understand that it can be short. And it works marvelously this way. Blood Orange is that type of reading that you devour but stays with you after finishing it, a reading that shows and tells you more than you expect in short spaces and few words. That\u2019s Yaffa\u2019s main power as a writer, and I can\u2019t wait to have more of it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
  
  There\u2019s a book I\u2019ve wanted to read for a while:\u00a0Blood Orange, by Yaffa AS. Just read the summary and you will know why. Format: 65 pages, Paperback. Published: November 13, 2023, by Meraj Publishing. Genres and Tags: Poetry, social commentary, nonfiction, Palestine, genocide, mental health. \u201cBlood Orange\u201d is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4425,"featured_media":1793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[80,194,109,182],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","tag-books","tag-mental-health","tag-poetry","tag-queer"],"yoast_head":"\nBook Review: Blood Orange<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There's a book I've wanted to read for a while:\u00a0Blood Orange, by Yaffa AS. 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