“Book Descriptions: blue pearl takes its reader on a tense summer vacation in a tiled bougainvillea-shrouded palace located in a sleepy, seaside Moroccan town. Here, the author nonlinearly explores her fractured cultural identity in poems such as ‘halved,’ her entangled familial relationships in confessionals such as ‘bad again’ and ‘two names,’ and her centipede-infested brain in thirty-minute word-vomits such as ‘focus’ and ‘hymn.’
Beware the half-dead voices, the muffled sound of Halsey’s “1121” and the various creepy-crawlies perpetually lurking in the dark. Rather, look towards the light of the author’s unbridled love for the only place she can truly call home.” DRIVE