Please, give them a voice.

How haunting, to read a novel that carries you through occupation and ethnic cleansing and the lives of refugees while Palestine currently undergoes the very thing. If you find yourself able to sympathize with characters within books such as Between Shades of Gray and Salt to the Sea, yet unable to speak for those being abandoned and slaughtered in Palestine, ask yourself why. I guarantee it is rooted in white supremacy.
These stories, historical fictions, may be just that but these things happen every day. You just have to open your eyes, see them, stand for and with the oppressed.
Ruta Sepetys' novel carries an intense weight, and her words consume me just as last time. Reading it at such a time as this made my heart so heavy.
History repeats itself because it is allowed to.