Author: Rupi Kaur
# of Pages: 204 (paperback)
Genre: Nonfiction, Poetry, Feminism
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Synopsis: Milk and honey' is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. 'milk and honey' takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
Review: You can tell from the cover that this book is (supposed to be) filled with poetry.
I'm not a huge fan of poetry, so I decided to read this book on a bit of a whim. I knew poetry is usually written in short chunks, and the book wasn't very thick at all, so I was confident I could finish in a relatively short period of time.
I was surprised by how moved I was for some of the poems. The way she defines love and describes how she her life reflects how she has been affected by others in the past is beautiful. However, the reason why I enjoyed it so much is because it felt more like Rupi was talking vaguely about these topics rather than portraying these ideas through traditional(?) poetic means.
TLDR: I believe I liked this book because it didn't really read like poetry.
It's a quick read; if you're interested, go for it!
