Beautiful. Heartbreaking. Healing.
Those are the three words I would use to describe this book. I learned so much about what is going on in the world just from this book. Some people may think that contemporary YA fiction doesn't have much to offer, but they'd be dead wrong. I like to consider myself a decently well-informed adult. This book taught me that I probably have no clue what is truly going on in most places in the world. This book tackles the drug war in the Philippines, but does so in a way that explains not just what is happening, but why. Why is a much harder question to answer. Why do we allow others to suffer? Why do we accept corrupt regimes? Why do we leave family behind? Do Americans see the world in more or less black and white, and ignore the gray? In questions of human suffering, can there be any morally gray areas?
This book had me researching. For something so secular, it was certainly theological. It's all about how we see the world and what we do with what we see.
Those are the three words I would use to describe this book. I learned so much about what is going on in the world just from this book. Some people may think that contemporary YA fiction doesn't have much to offer, but they'd be dead wrong. I like to consider myself a decently well-informed adult. This book taught me that I probably have no clue what is truly going on in most places in the world. This book tackles the drug war in the Philippines, but does so in a way that explains not just what is happening, but why. Why is a much harder question to answer. Why do we allow others to suffer? Why do we accept corrupt regimes? Why do we leave family behind? Do Americans see the world in more or less black and white, and ignore the gray? In questions of human suffering, can there be any morally gray areas?
This book had me researching. For something so secular, it was certainly theological. It's all about how we see the world and what we do with what we see.