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A review by discarded_dust_jacket
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
4.75
There are so many moments in this collection of essays/poetry that I loved enough to highlight, circle, star, underline three times.
I loved “to the deathwalkers” for its emphatic “I can’t and won’t force you to stay, but I’ll never stop begging you to” (paraphrase).
I loved “to the church of social justice” for “i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?”
I loved “to J.K. Rowling” for “a monster is a part of ourselves that we don’t want to find in the mirror. a part of ourselves we try to cut out and split off and put inside other people so that they can carry it for us: our fear. our shame.”
I loved “to the exiled” for “i want to sing the stories that tell not of the cleansing power of blood, but the transformative power of tears.”
And I loved “to the ones this world was never made for” for “choosing love is a practice. every day it takes all my strength. still, i believe in this body, this soul, this fallible flesh that still burns with wanting.”
I loved “to the deathwalkers” for its emphatic “I can’t and won’t force you to stay, but I’ll never stop begging you to” (paraphrase).
I loved “to the church of social justice” for “i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?”
I loved “to J.K. Rowling” for “a monster is a part of ourselves that we don’t want to find in the mirror. a part of ourselves we try to cut out and split off and put inside other people so that they can carry it for us: our fear. our shame.”
I loved “to the exiled” for “i want to sing the stories that tell not of the cleansing power of blood, but the transformative power of tears.”
And I loved “to the ones this world was never made for” for “choosing love is a practice. every day it takes all my strength. still, i believe in this body, this soul, this fallible flesh that still burns with wanting.”