When Blackbirds Fly Book Review - A Requiem to Childhood
It’s quite difficult to write a review of Hannah Lalhlanpuii’s debut novel When Blackbirds Fly because nothing one says can truly capture the elegiac beauty and the punch in the guts that this slim book packs. It’s a slow burn of a novel allowing the reader to soak in the story while challenging the reader at every step to acknowledge their lack of knowledge, their sense of privilege and assumptions routinely made about the region that forms the locus of the story.