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Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language by Roxane Gay

7 reviews

camill3's review

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

it's difficult to rate such a short book that talks about her own experience. in my version of the e-book there was a (ugly) red section breaker (idk how you call it), that was probably the only negative thing

fav quotes:

I had, or have, a chip on my shoulder, the kind that leads me to believe that anyone living in a thin body is necessarily living a perfect life. (13)

(...) and I was supposed to be grateful to be there, but I wasn't. I was too broken to appreciate anything about my life. (14)

We are walking wounds, but I am not sure any of us know quite how to talk about it. (17)

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

As always, I really enjoy Roxane Gay's writing and it was really interesting to hear her takes on what's been going on in the US the past four years and about the aftermath of the release of her memoir, "Hunger." She talks a lot about the class she teaches at Yale and listening to her talk about that made me really want to take the class.

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