"Book Review: Nermina's Chance"
Reviewed by Samantha Hui
Complex, multidimensional, important.
Choices often fall moot when they are informed by chance.
Nermina's Chance is a harrowing look at how quickly freedom can be taken away. Telling the story of a survivor who has escaped war, this novel explores a plethora of themes including choice, forgiveness, and guilt.
Though the Bosnian War is what sets this story in motion, it is not its primary storyline; it's first about Nermina reconciling with the choices that she was forced to make as well as the ones she made on her own.
The Bosnian War is in full motion in 1992. Nermina's brother Mirsad is dead after his place of work was bombed; Nermina's mother has been beaten to death by Serbian soldiers; and Nermina herself has been brutalized and ravaged by soldiers. Despite her suffering, Nermina still wants to stay here with her father.
But her father has different plans for her, saying, "You're not the one who chooses," in order to protect Nermina. In following his detailed plan for her, Nermina finds refuge in America and determines herself to have an American child.
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