Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. “In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. By signing up you agree to our terms of use My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew.” Local men, greedy and watchful, began to circle like vultures. He told them that the little copse in Elmet was theirs alone. Sometimes Daddy disappeared, and would return with a rage in his eyes. But they were not like the other children then, and they were even less like them now. When they were younger, Daniel and Cathy had gone to school. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for them with his bare hands. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned sour and fearful. Helen also knows that she alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into his death, so she purchases a one-way ticket to Milwaukee.” Elmet by Fiona Mozley But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for the abyss. She’s accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen’s adoptive brother is dead.Īccording to the internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. “Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. The Best First-Person Books to Read Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell I hope you enjoy the (point of) view.ĭescriptions provided by Goodreads. So, I’ve put together a list of the best first-person books that will pick you up and drop you off in someone else’s brain for a bit. You get to live as someone who is from a different part of the world, maybe as someone who is a different race or orientation. It is through those read experiences that our capacity for empathy grows. For the duration of those pages, you’re transported into another’s mind. That’s what makes first-person narration so interesting-it allows you to sit in a character’s head as they experience the world. It is said that the best way to learn about a person is through their own perspective (or to use the tired cliche: to walk a mile in their shoes).
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