Pieces of Me

By: Natalie Hart

Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins

Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2018

Emma did not go to war looking for love, but Adam is unlike any other. Under the secret shadow of trauma, Emma decides to leave Iraq and joins Adam to settle in Colorado. But isolation and fear find her, once again, when Adam is redeployed.

Torn between a deep fear for Adam’s safety and a desire to be back there herself, Emma copes by throwing herself into a new role mentoring an Iraqi refugee family. But when Adam comes home, he brings the conflict back with him. Emma had considered the possibility that her husband might not come home from war. She had not considered that he might return a stranger.

©2018 Natalie Hart (P)2018 W.F. Howes Ltd

meh

It took everything I had to finish this book. I love the topic, but I didn't connect with the characters

White saviorism at its most tedious

I barely finished this book as it was replete with navel-gazing and humble bragging about how a white woman takes credit for improving the lives of refugees and asylum-seekers, from her own perspective of course.
Also she drinks copious wine and eats at Arby’s. Save yourself the eye rolls.