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"Red Birds" by Mohammed Hanif

3/5. This guy has a very unique writing style... And I think I love it? But I have some reservations about how character-heavy this book is. There was very little plot because Hanif fills his pages with characters talking about their past, the hypothetical, etc etc. And towards the end it was written very dream-like/surreal and it was hard to tell what was actually happening and what was metaphorical. Still, I enjoyed almost every page of it. And Red birds is written in several different first-person perspectives including the perspective of the main character’s dog, which was funny and endearing. So, I liked it, but the plot had a lot of potential and I would've liked to have seen more of it.