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deweydecimalsisters's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
boggremlin's review
3.0
Intense and urgently written, but the marriage of the two storylines is not quite successful for me as a reader/listener. Despite the lack of cohesion, this is sobering and often disturbing and is well-laid out.
fkshg8465's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
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emotional
informative
sad
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medium-paced
4.0
I would’ve easily given this book five stars except that the author lost his way towards the end. He should’ve wrapped it up with what happened with the Vietnamese fishers. Instead, he added a new topic of toxic environmental waste that would’ve been better told as a separate book.
Up until that point, it was pretty riveting and even the epilogue was great to read. But that boy in between that took place many years after the lawsuit against the KKK had no correlation to the clear xenophobia against the Vietnamese. The fact that the factory centered on your second portion was from Taiwan felt completely unrelated given it had nothing to do with xenophobia.
Highly recommend the book anyway. It was almost five stars!, and I really appreciated learning the history of the Southern Poverty Law Center (and was so glad I never donated a penny to it myself).
Up until that point, it was pretty riveting and even the epilogue was great to read. But that boy in between that took place many years after the lawsuit against the KKK had no correlation to the clear xenophobia against the Vietnamese. The fact that the factory centered on your second portion was from Taiwan felt completely unrelated given it had nothing to do with xenophobia.
Highly recommend the book anyway. It was almost five stars!, and I really appreciated learning the history of the Southern Poverty Law Center (and was so glad I never donated a penny to it myself).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Cancer, Colonisation, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Antisemitism, Blood, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Racism, Pregnancy, War, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Terminal illness
seest12's review
5.0
Super fascinating! I listened via audiobook and the narrator, David Lee Huynh, was phenomenal. The epilogue on this is a must read and will send you to the internet looking for details on the tentacles that are connected to this story (Morris Dees, Diane Wilson, the SPLC).