Reviews tagging 'Islamophobia'

Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

2 reviews

readingsofaslinky's review

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Where Citizen is essays and articulated thoughts, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is dream states and small moments. It is dark and morbid; it is depressive. It brings you into post 9-11 America and Bush’s America. It references anxieties that keep you up at night. It muses on death. It sanctifies people like Lionel Tate and Abner Louima. Claudia Rankine keeps waking up in a fever dream that is America and these are her dream journals. Her struggles with falling asleep. Her proximity to suicide. Her collection of expirations.  This was a history lesson for me and a transport back in time. I was a kid when most of the events discussed were happening— fully unaware of the terrors that go bump in America’s night. But this book transported me there—twenty years ago.  I recommend you read this but do so with care. It is such a book that reminds you of loneliness but still reaches out a hand nevertheless. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Cancer, Murder, Racism, Drug use, Medical content, Death, Grief, Islamophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

valyn_grebe's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness