SuitabookShatter Me
Tahereh Mafi
- Reading
- Consider reading the opening together or trying a short passage first: the prose uses unusual metaphors and sentence patterns, and Juliette’s distinctive voice shapes how the story is told.
- Themes
- Power and restraint: The story contrasts people who use power to control others with Juliette’s empathy and self-restraint. The contrast supports a reading that the story values restraint and regard for others over controlling power.
- Distinctive narration: The story is told from Juliette’s perspective and uses unusual metaphors, sentence patterns and crossed-out words. The stylised narration, with its unusual metaphors and sentence patterns, shapes how Juliette’s thoughts and the story are presented.
- Worth knowing
- The book includes imprisonment and starvation, gunfire, injuries and deaths, past abuse, bullying, sexual harassment, and passionate physical intimacy. These episodes may be worth considering in light of your reader’s sensitivities.