Painting Kuwait Violet by Pamela Q. Fernandes – Review by Julie Lounello

Painting Kuwait VioletPainting Kuwait Violet by Pamela Q. Fernandes
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Painting Kuwait Violet by Pamela Q. Fernandes is a five star novel. I love reading about other countries and how their lives are different than ours. Being written by an author who lived in Kuwait and came back in 1996 after the war, I feel that her depiction is probably pretty accurate. It is hard for me to imagine having a life where I couldn’t be in control of it. As a woman, I live my life, work my job and make my own decisions. In Kuwait, life is very different for women where society is strictly patriarchal. Violet is a young woman just trying to help her family. When her father dies unexpectedly, she realizes she needs to find work to help her family pay off the debts that were accrued by her father. She leaves her homeland to go work in Kuwait. Once she gets there, she realizes things have been happening at her new home where she is a maid that are unexplainable. She soon realizes her boss and her are a lot alike and only want to make their own way in the world to make life easier for themselves and their families. Will they both come out the other side and be successful people? Read this book and you will find out what happens to them.

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