282 reviews for:

Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language

Roxane Gay

4.15 AVERAGE

beatingaroundthebooks's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

intoastory's review against another edition

4.0

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“There is no pleasure to be had in writing about trauma. It requires opening a wound, looking into the bloody gape of it, and cleaning it out, one word at a time. Only then might it be possible for that wound to heal.”

Great essay. I always love Roxanne Gay’s honesty.

spookyfaith's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

iam_allbooked's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

ckeller48's review against another edition

4.25

informative reflective fast-paced

wafareads's review against another edition

3.5

informative reflective fast-paced

mangaterasu's review against another edition

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I’m going to stop rating non fiction but this was pretty good!

agniguha01's review against another edition

3.5

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Here Roxane Gay explores the task of writing about trauma. While I loved the discussions, I wish it would've delved deeper into the subject matter. This is a very brief introduction on making sense of trauma through language and literature. 

She mentions teaching a course on the same at Yale and that's the class I want to attend! 

gabi_anq's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

estherokunlola's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced