I had to keep reminding myself this was a fictional book. It truly felt like someone's story, like their true, honest story of turmoil and war and survival but it's coming from someone who's a political prisoner. There's just so much raw emotion and ferocity, it was deeply moving and deeply unsettling. This is a book that will root itself inside your mind and soul and you'll be thinking about it all the time. I genuinely admire the main character.