{"id":1656,"date":"2006-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2025-01-03T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T21:49:13","slug":"just-like-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/06\/03\/just-like-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Like Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong><strong>Fa\u00efza Gu\u00e8ne, translated by Sarah Adams<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Chatto &amp; Windus<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, June 3rd 2006<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Fa\u00efza Gu\u00e8ne\u2019s <em>Just Like Tomorrow<\/em> is short, idiosyncratic and firmly rooted in a specific time, place and culture. It is a brief, diaristic snapshot of a young Muslim girl struggling with adolescence, racism and class discrimination in a poor quarter of Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Largely, I suspect, autobiographical, the episodic nature of the writing means the story sometimes lacks continuity, and resolution seems jarringly abrupt. Despite this, it provides a striking insight into a culture and situation that is unfamiliar, but increasingly important in a world where social exclusion and poverty are a reality too often denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This English translation of contemporary French writing is delightful reading: a satisfying experiences that appealed to me both as an avid reader and aspiring writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fa\u00efza Gu\u00e8ne, translated by Sarah Adams Chatto &amp; Windus Otago Daily Times, June 3rd 2006 Fa\u00efza Gu\u00e8ne\u2019s Just Like Tomorrow is short, idiosyncratic and firmly rooted in a specific time, place and culture. It is a brief, diaristic snapshot of a young Muslim girl struggling with adolescence, racism and class discrimination in a poor quarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47,474,370,18],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-47","tag-faiza-guene-2","tag-fiction","tag-odt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}