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lielos99's review against another edition
5.0
Read for school and really like it. Real, thought provoking, and also filled with poesm
tlindhorst's review
4.0
This book is transfixing. It shows the reality of how one thing leads to another. The layers of what is life, life in Mississippi.
kitkatpanicattack's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
this book feels like a collage of memories--both the things we want to remember and the things we desperately wish we could forget--in the best way possible.
noelrk's review
5.0
Trethewey reaches far despite telling a deeply personal story. The resonance to any POC community is fierce, and likely to be fiercer still as we slog through another ill-responded to disaster that will leave countless with little to nothing left. "Beyond" indeed.
bookgirlron's review against another edition
5.0
This was an eye-opening meditation on the Mississippi Gulf. Should be required reading for every American. Katrina was more than New Orleans.
sonyahu's review against another edition
5.0
Pulitzer Prize winning poet writes soaring and thoughtful nonfiction on the meaning of Hurricane Katrina, its impact specifically on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and the meaning of memorialization and erasure of natural disaster, woven with memoir about the storm's impact on her family and on the area where the storm made landfall. The fact that material is often introduced in prose and then repeated as poetry made it twice as powerful and gave me a chance to savor the true impact of the author's reflections in this fine multi-genre work.
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