Alejandra

This is how shattering a mirror and getting cut by the pieces must feel like. How violent the rejection of violence can feel.

She's an ICON, she's a LEGEND and she IS the moment.

Janina is funny, fearless and unique, and she refuses to be diminished or dismissed by those around her, challenging societal norms, misogyny, speciesism, ageism, and advocating for the voiceless. Her unwavering position against animal cruelty and the marginalization of those who are considered invisible/worthless highlight themes of empathy and justice. Janina's character teaches us that life's beauty lies in its simplicity, its slow pace, its depth and complexity. This novel asks us to think deeper, slowly and honor and protect what truly matters.

This novel smells and tastes the same as Gloria Fuerte's poetry, they both explore the softness that true strength requires and how beauty is scattered around us, floating, shimmering, pulsing, like stars in a dark sky.

I really didn't want to leave this polish village.

You know when you look at a paper cut and you wonder how something so white so soft so innocent as paper can be so fucking painful? That's what she does with language.

This book is the most beautiful form of violence you will ever endure. It's a beautifully devastating story about loss, identity, and the wounds history refuses to close. It unravels how trauma breaks and reshapes a person, how memory clings like a ghost, both unbearable and impossible to release, and how forgetting can feel like the deepest betrayal. This isn't just a book about a massacre, it's about the fragile, stubborn resilience of being human in the face of unbearable cruelty.

Go touch grass for the love of god stop working and posting shit for people you don't even really know.