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A review by autumn_alwaysreadingseason
Carry by Toni Jensen
informative
reflective
4.0
Toni Jensen's Carry is a memoir in essays about her experience as a Métis woman, with a particular focus on how gun violence has become rampant and touches numerous lives. It's also about identity, trauma, being a writer, etc.
Guns are woven throughout, from her father's own possession, to encounters she's personally had, to other people she's known who have been affected by them. For example, she writes of the Pulse night club shooting in Orlando, a place that she used to live and which her students would frequent. Her life is almost presented as a web, a twisted game of "three degrees from..." as she relates herself to these events.
Guns are woven throughout, from her father's own possession, to encounters she's personally had, to other people she's known who have been affected by them. For example, she writes of the Pulse night club shooting in Orlando, a place that she used to live and which her students would frequent. Her life is almost presented as a web, a twisted game of "three degrees from..." as she relates herself to these events.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gun violence