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Reading Masud Husain’s Our Brains, Our Selves alongside Rami Kaminski’s The Gift of Not Belonging over the last couple of weeks, and they bring a fascinating tension to the concept of human belonging.<\/span><\/p>\n

One is about people who lose the ability to belong when the brain changes and how quickly the world withdraws recognition when someone becomes unfamiliar. The other is about people who never felt the pull of the group in the first place and dares to call that a gift rather than a flaw.<\/span><\/p>\n

Between Bront\u00eb’s attic, Plath’s bell jar, and Ishiguro’s buttoned-up butler, literature has been asking this question for centuries: who gets to belong, who decides and why do some of us opt out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read this exploration on my latest Substack essay – link in bio or here:<\/span>
https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/bibliotherapywithbijal\/p\/who-gets-to-belong-a-view-from-literature<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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