Desperada : a raw grieving story
TW: drowning, death of a sibling, sexual assault, suicidal thoughts, racism, depression, drug use, terrorist attacks, grieving If you're looking for a feel-good read, this is definitely not for you. Twenty-seven-year-old Kora looses her younger sister, Kimia. She drowned in the ocean in Cabo San Lucas, in front of Kora. Her parents, particularly her mother, are mad at her cause they wanted her to protect her younger sister. She feels so guilty that she didn't save her. Unable to be at home under these circumstances, she quits her job, books a one-way ticket to Iceland and goes to stay at a past fling’s house. Only telling her family that she's going to Iceland for a couple of weeks. She tries to down her sorrows in all sorts of excess, all around the world: Iceland, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Koh Pha Ngan, and Istanbul. In full grievance, she tries to fill the emptiness with sex. Repeatedly chasing “the little death” (“la petite mort”, a French expression that ...