The Association of Small Bombs is a book of compelling moments, well written imagery, and strong individual scenes but it does not have a well structured overarching plot, and some important characters seem to have truncated or nonexistent arcs. The only real connective tissue of the story, the glue holding everything together, is Mansoor, the survivor of the 1996 bomb who is later arrested and imprisoned as an accomplice to the 2003 bombing committed his friend Ayub .
The unearned hype makes it a disappointment. There is beauty in the language but the shifts of the story make it so hard to engage and follow.
This is a book about what happens to us after and during grief. The book begins with the going of a small bomb (car bomb), and two young boys die in it.
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