10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD.

Hello dear friends,

I hope everyone is fine.

The book is as great as ever.

Special congratulations to Dr. Elif Shafak.

The title of the book made me want to read it for a long time and finally, I did. I had always heard that the brain is active for some time after a person dies and this book gave so many details about it. How the brain recalls life within a span of a few minutes after death. It is interesting for people who value life, lessons, experiences, and friendship. Elif Shafak got me hooked to the book just like I was hooked to the forty rules of love.

Tequila Leila, a prostitute finds herself murdered in a dumpster one evening. After her heart stops beating, she starts to revisit her life's nondescript moments through her senses. Every minute takes her back to the time that defined her path and to the moments where she met her friends, and her water relations, who do everything in their power to claim her body.

This book is based on the theory which believes that after a body loses life, for 10 minutes and 38 seconds the brain is awake and we revisit some of our moments.

Elif Shafak has always been a staunch advocate of women's equality and has been on the tip of controversy for the raw, bold, unabashed portrayal of their blatant discrimination, and sexual exploitation. Her books are mostly women-orientated and cover the tabooed, contentious subjects about women and the LGBT community. This book particularly talks about the sexual exploitation of sex workers, the flesh trade, unjust laws, and fanatic physical assaults, justice for which is mostly inconclusive. She has designed this fictional story through various non-fictional systems and establishments.

I am a huge fan of her books and love her metaphorical, idiomatic expressive writing. Her words are deep and hit hard. This is the fourth book by the author that I have read and loved.