#zabelle

[kerorinart]

Zabelle doodle 👑🖤

Idk yesterday I woke up wanting to draw this character for no reason at all

[mangovonjuicius]

"NEVER BACK DOWN COWARD. NEVER BACK DOWN COWARD. NEVER BACK DOWN COWARD."

-Zabelle, fallen angel

[queenatalanta]

[santhipoma]

Zabelle by Nancy Kricorian is so weak a book.

The writing is very very basic and easy to read but I wanted something meaty - the life of an Armenian woman who survived the genocide and immigrated to America and made a life.

But it's so centered on her and her life the story is diminished - it says it's about her kids learning about her, but outside the first chapter it's all from her perspective. And her life becomes a series of vignettes and it's just disappointing.

It definitely felt like a YA book, one parents would approve of, because yes there are mentions of violence, well actually not many. her father is shot and her mother-in-law slaps her. It's very ahistorical feeling even as it's about an historic event because we never see the bigger picture.

I guess I expected writing like in Birds Without Wings or the background in Middlesex.

do not recommend

it doesn't even educate you about the genocide