cady_sass 's review for:

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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Years ago someone staged a silent protest at a Trump rally by reading this book. I immediately purchased it and it’s been sitting on my shelf waiting for me ever since. I finally decided to pick it up when the audiobook was recommended to me on my library app, and so I read and listened to this in tandem. Highly, highly recommend doing this as the narration is fantastic. Especially if, like me, you struggle with poetry, the narration is immensely helpful. It’s powerful, poignant, and very resonate with the current age. If you read one book this year that’s not a novel or memoir, make it this one. 

I don’t rate poetry because I don’t know how, but if I did this would get 5 stars. I have to stay consistent and fair though, since I’ve never rated any before now.