Nila the Bleeding Garden <— AFGHAN GIRL’S LOSS AND DYSFUNCTION CAUSED BY THE AFGHAN WAR AND DISPLACEMENT!!! This one sounds amazing and poignant and devastating!! Thank you to author Laila Re for sponsoring today’s newsletter, celebrating her new release!!
So what’s it about?
Nila the Bleeding Garden describes the turbulent journey of an Afghan girl called Nila who suddenly has to escape her homeland with her family during the long Afghan war.
As a child refugee, she experiences the trauma of displacement, first to Pakistan and then to Canada, during which her family struggles to survive and slowly falls apart.