Review by nareadyns -- The Immigrant's Lament

[nareadyns]

[Following is a volunteer review of "The Immigrant's Lament" by Mois benarroch.]

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2 out of 4 stars

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The immigrant's laments
The title of the book is really interesting for any immigrant like myself because we are always looking for someone sharing our experiences hopping to get one who had better experience even success.

But reading the book when I was in the middle of it I felt like I did not know what the book was about anymore. The poems following the first part of the book talk about many other subjects which are not even related to the title of the book.

Yes it is a collection of poems but was not the goal to meet an immigrant's laments? Any other subject of those poems would have been related to an immigrant's laments but it just that the direction taken on those poems does not reflect an immigrant's laments and the are not even related to the first part of the book which was matching the title of the book.

The beginning was really into the subject and I really liked the immigrant twist of being in your homeland but as a stranger. Because feeling being born at a foreign land makes us more feel of that land even if your parents originally comes from another place and being back to your homeland you feel as a stranger because you have lost your environment, friends, you need to discover a fresh how to live at this place, start by learning the culture a fresh, making new friends, looking for opportunities. It is never easy. The author talked even of his grand father losing his wealth because in the homeland which became stranger to him after so long, he was not able to do his business as usual.
We get back to the subject again at the end of the book where the author gives us a glimpse of his life.

It was not a bad reading just that the whole book takes different directions that troubles me. Maybe if it was titled "poems by Mois Benarroch" it would not have given me a certain expectation. I also found some mistakes in the grammar I do not know if it was on purpose or that the author did not proofread everything but that also disturbed me a lot. And while picking the book the total page number was 60 but when I read, I went up to 89 pages, the pages was said to have 250 words but some did not even have 50 words. It will be good to give the right information.

I will give it 2 out of 4

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The Immigrant's Lament
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