Review: Powerful, Engaging & Intensely Authentic
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2014
"Sour Milk and Stolen Honey" is one of those books that just utterly sucks you in from the very first page, winding around you and taking you on an unforgettable journey of life, love, pain, self-discovery, strength and survival. Marianne Azizi does a wonderful job of forging a connection with the reader as she offers a poignant and at times brutally honest account of her struggles in the face of a system of government that causes more problems than helps, of society and family that add to the disparity, and an ever-growing space between what she has and what she wants.The book is incredibly engaging with an authentic tone that leaves little room for anything less than an evocative and heart-wrenching journey. This is a vivid and lushly written memoir that touches your heart, makes you sniffle and gasp in pain, shock or anger... it's a journey in itself for the reader into a world and a struggle that can oftentimes go under the radar. Ms. Azizi writes with a great deal of emotion and an even more telling passionate desire to get her story out there and to release the pressure of the things left unsaid.Overall, I certainly couldn't put this book down once I started... it was just too intensely real and gripping to do anything but read until the very last page. Marianne Azizi has a talent for writing and a truly incredible story to tell that I would definitely recommend to other readers in a heartbeat.