This is a beautifully written but structurally flawed critique of global displacement. Nation of Strangers suffers from a jarring blind spot by attempting to equate the author’s jet-setting, privileged exile with the harrowing reality of the truly stateless.
Tag: poetry
The Savior Complex and the Scalpel: Decolonizing The Covenant of Water
An unpopular critique of Abraham Verghese’s epic. Unpacking the idyllic portrait of colonial India, the realities of caste, and the savior complex of medicine