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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Tracy Martin, Sybrina Fulton
2 reviews
megelizabeth's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
4.5
"That is the burden of black boys in America and the people that love them: running the risk of being descended upon in the dark and caught in the crosshairs of someone who crosses the line."
This is, of course, an incredibly brutal, difficult, devastating read, but it's such a worthy one. It's astounding that an account of such horror - both that faced by Trayvon and his family and that faced much more widely - manages to be told with such raw honesty, care, and compassion, and to end on a message of hope. I will be forever in awe of Sybrina and Tracy and their ability to carry on and to stand up for justice, despite the relentless pushback from the legal system and from the world. Theirs and Trayvon's story is such an important one, and one that will stay with me.
The only criticism I have of this book is that, while I appreciate and am glad that Tracy's and particularly Sybrina's faith was such a help and source of comfort and strength to them while they went through the worst, the extremely heavy focus Christian faith is given in the narrative does a lot of the time verge into preachy territory, and for me it just felt like a bit too much.
This is, of course, an incredibly brutal, difficult, devastating read, but it's such a worthy one. It's astounding that an account of such horror - both that faced by Trayvon and his family and that faced much more widely - manages to be told with such raw honesty, care, and compassion, and to end on a message of hope. I will be forever in awe of Sybrina and Tracy and their ability to carry on and to stand up for justice, despite the relentless pushback from the legal system and from the world. Theirs and Trayvon's story is such an important one, and one that will stay with me.
The only criticism I have of this book is that, while I appreciate and am glad that Tracy's and particularly Sybrina's faith was such a help and source of comfort and strength to them while they went through the worst, the extremely heavy focus Christian faith is given in the narrative does a lot of the time verge into preachy territory, and for me it just felt like a bit too much.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Blood, Death, Murder, and Child death
epark213's review
challenging
emotional
informative
medium-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Death, and Racism
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