I would have liked it  better if

Yasmeen was actually her other self or a figment of her imagination instead of a being she woke up that was trying to be human.

That went into a direction that didn’t really fit in the narrative imo. Unsurprisingly, this reminds me alot of Elizabeth Acevedo’s work. The author mentions her in her acknowledgements. I like Elizabeth’s work better though. 

The message and lovely reminder of this book is that home is not a country but where the people you love are.