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Following in the footsteps of an imagined ancestor, one of the daughters of the house of Akhenaten in the Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt, Sherry Shenoda forges an imagined path through her ancestor’s mummification and journey to the afterlife.
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I have never been a fan of reading poetry because I find them hard to analyze for some reason so I tend to avoid them but even all of these I found this book amazing. Here the poetry follows the sequence of the actual timeline and I was mesmerized by how she has written such phenomena so masterfully. I knew that European colonizers used to excavate mummies for fertilizer but have never thought they also used to ingest it. She also has written about the robberies of artefacts by them. The poetry was simple, soulful and poignant. Although at the last I did find one or two pieces of poetry a little bit preachy.
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