Casey McConnell

Essential

Revisado: 02-28-23

Foundational, important, essential. Anyone who is interested in anti-racism, this should be a centerpiece of your learning.

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A must read

Revisado: 01-09-23

Beautiful. Engrossing. Necessary.

Clint Smith is a phenomenal writer and evokes emotion on every page. Truly an astounding work.

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Phenomenal

Revisado: 12-14-22

This is a life changing book. The kind that shakes the very foundation of life and how we as Americans render the past and reckon with the future. This book should be standard reading for every American. Isabel Wilkerson is a national treasure and her writing is so gentle and yet so full of power. This is the kind of book that stays with you long after reading.

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Do yourself a favor and listen

Revisado: 11-07-21

Exquisite, emotive and entrancing. Gorgeously written. From the first sentence till the very last, characters are flawed and also worthy of the reader’s compassion. This retold Norse tale of the birth of the children that will bring on Ragnarok is told the way they should be, showcasing the complexities of the characters in all of their damnation and glory.

Look forward to more writing from Genevieve Gornichec in the future. Expertly narrated by Jayne Entwistle.

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Exquisite and the definition of empowerment

Revisado: 01-14-19

"child, make another"

I don't even have words for how profoundly beautiful the book is. Mastery in every way, the writing, the pacing, the story. It should resonate with every person who has lived through dark times, the unexplained darkness of being a woman, a mother, a pain that has spanned generations and retold its trauma since the beginning. The eternal tale of the rising of the power within.

I felt every sentence, every emotion as if they were my own. And Circe the "malevolent" witch of the Odyssey. Here's the real of it, a woman's truth is always hidden behind the tales of men.

This will be an all time favorite book for me. I wished it never ended.
Bonus points to the narration by Perdita Weeks. Absolute perfection.

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Important at all costs

Revisado: 10-24-18

There are important reads and then there are IMPORTANT at all costs reads. And this book/memoir/manifesto is absolutely required listening. So many people have absolutely no clue as to how immigration works or how the industrial complexes profit from the disparity of human beings.

I found myself at times wrapped up in despair, as much despair as my very privileged white american born self can have in this, enveloped in the pain of belonging nowhere yet home somewhere. I found myself in tears so many times, remembering the pain my ex-husband, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, has been through, there were so many gut-wrenching parallels in Vargas's story to his story. What a gift this book is to a world that closes its eyes to the migration of human beings, exploits them and uses them as political fodder, from every side of the isle. What a gift it is to break open the truth and lay it bare for all to read. Jose Antonio Vargas, your bravery is to be commended and that bravery shouldn't have to be such, but in this case that's exactly what it is. Thank you for sharing your story, for those who don't have the means to do so. For those that can't or are stuck in the cycle of fear, which is very real fact based fear.

"What we're doing - waving a "Keep Out!" flag at the Mexican border while holding up a Help Wanted sign a hundred yards in - is deliberate. Spending billions building fences and walls, locking people up like livestock, deporting people to keep the people we don't want out, tearing families apart, breaking spirits - all of that serves a purpose." Brought me to my knees. THIS IS THE TRUTH. The truth of the country I was born in, TRUTH in the community and neighborhood I live in. Built upon the backs of migration of a border that crossed them...

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Required reading

Revisado: 08-06-18

Do you ever have one of those times when you finish a book and you can’t move forward with anything else? This. Is. It. Perhaps one of the most heartbreaking and gut wrenching reads I have ever read and no matter how open your eyes are to the truth, I as a cis white woman will never ever understand being ripped from my bed in the middle of the night simply because of the color of my skin. This should be required reading for all people.

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