I still don’t really know what to think about this one, I had to read it for my Italian class and am a little bit confused why we were reading a book about a young Black Somali girl who was a promising young athlete before she died in the Mediterranean trying to flee to Italy that is written by a white Italian dude. Yes, it was well written and yes, absolutely emotional and yes, an important story that needed to be told….but, in my opinion, not by some white dude hailing from the country that not only colonized Somalia but also that killed Samia, the protagonist, by refusing to rescue her. So yeah, this was definitely a hard read that made me angry and very emotional for a number of reasons.