“Small Worlds” Caleb Azumah Nelson (2023) Review | Tender feeling of understanding and belonging

Small Worlds
Caleb Azumah Nelson, 2023
256 pages
Read in 2025.05
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✔ South London 
✔ Childhood love story and coming of age 
✔ Father son relationship


🔽 Review summary 🔽

★★★★★ Very poetic. His big world is loud and violent, but not his small world, it's a place of love, tenderness, freedom, family, dream and grieve. It leaves you with a great feeling of understanding and belonging.


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
Very poetic.
From a quick glance of the cover, you don't expect it - immigrants, Black, south London, music, you'd expect something loud and violent. 

Loudness and violence are there, but it's the big world they lived in.
While in his small world, it's a place of love, tenderness, freedom, family, dream and grieve.
He is in love with his childhood friend, he struggles in his relationship with his father who seems to be closed up, it's the story we all share, but the story is told in a mix of rhythm and tenderness.

It leaves you with a great soft feeling of understanding and belonging.

🔽 Where to buy / Summary and info 🔽

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