In 2025 I read I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart.

Timeline

• May 09, 2025: started reading.
• Jun 02, 2025: finished reading.

Review

A really well executed debut.

Pickhart’s prose is lyrical and sharp. The structure is unexpected and leads to surprising narrative harmonies. The history is ongoing and heartbreaking. The work helps us begin to process the extent of the tragedy that has unfolded this past decade — and longer.

I was grateful to her for ending the story on a hopeful note. Though the knowledge of the events that followed shortly after this book’s publication add a bittersweetness that only history can.