Tag: these impossible things

Fiction
My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪🍪.5

These Impossible Things is a coming of age story that follows three best friends, Malak, Kees, and Jenna, as they graduate college and navigate their new adult lives. Their friendships quickly become strained, and the story beautifully, and oftentimes painfully, follows each woman independently. The three of them struggle to navigate the expectations of the traditional Muslim values they were raised in with their personal desires, particularly surrounding romantic relationships.

The three main characters were distinct and had very different priorities from each other and it was interesting to see the ways they approached big decisions and how there were still parallels between the lives of all three. Each of them dealt with heavy and difficult struggles of their own and I felt like the story provided a strong portrayal of what people deal with at that stage in their life.

Despite the fact that the women lost the physical closeness they once had, their love for one another was apparent in their actions and interactions throughout the narrative. Although their romantic relationships often appeared central to their lives, it was their relationships with each other that stood the test of time and that the entire book kept looping back to. I really appreciate stories that highlight the magic of strong female friendships, and These Impossible Things was exactly that.

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