pickSmall boat was, by the end, every bit as devastating as I expected it to be.
Based on actual events and told mostly from the perspective of a rescue co-ordinator, this short book explores attitudes to migration, guilt, responsibility and our collective culpability and complicity when it comes to global inequality.
Powerful, and ought to be widely read.
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pickThis #InternationalBooker novel is based on a real case where a dinghy overfilled with migrants attempts to cross the Channel and starts sinking.
Most of the book consists of thoughts by a coastguard radio operator, who‘s being interrogated by the police because of her alleged complicity in the death of 27 migrants. We are drawn into her conflicted consciousness, displaying what appears to be an almost inhumane coldness and indifference. ⬇️⬇️
#WeeklyForecast 18/25
I am in the middle of The Mangan Inheritance which I am loving. Next will be the tagged title for the #InternationalBooker and I also want to read My Documents, that @TrishB nominated for #CampLitsy25 and caught my eye in the bookshop the day after!
I've just noticed how devastating this cover truly is
Small Boats | 
