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BOOK REVIEW: Half Lives — Exploring intimate-partner violence and migration with nuanced sensitivity
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Krystle Zara Appiah’s Half Lives explores sisters, migration, motherhood and intimate-partner violence, offering a nuanced portrait of women surviving complicated lives.
- Krystle Zara Appiah’s Half Lives explores sisters, migration, motherhood and intimate-partner violence, offering a nuanced portrait of women surviving complicated lives.
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- BOOK REVIEW: Half Lives — Exploring intimate-partner violence and migration with nuanced sensitivity
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