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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
by Hanif Abdurraqib
I am surrounded by books at work and in my life - this is a choice, and it makes my life immeasurably better. I read good books and crap books, and every so often I read a book that changes the hours.
I thought this book would be about Fall Out Boy and Nina Simone and race in America and it is about those things, but it is so much more than the sum of them.
This book will make you hope that not a single other person will ever read it because then they will know the insides of your mind and body like the writer seems to and they will know your shame and your weakness and your grief and it is painful to be seen.
Hanif Abdurraqib stuck a hand through these pages into my chest and wrapped it around my heart. Sometimes he gripped it and sometimes he patted it and sometimes he just nudged it to let me know that feelings might be ugly but they are universal and I am not alone. I do not know how to repay him for this kindness.
Please just go read this.
I thought this book would be about Fall Out Boy and Nina Simone and race in America and it is about those things, but it is so much more than the sum of them.
This book will make you hope that not a single other person will ever read it because then they will know the insides of your mind and body like the writer seems to and they will know your shame and your weakness and your grief and it is painful to be seen.
Hanif Abdurraqib stuck a hand through these pages into my chest and wrapped it around my heart. Sometimes he gripped it and sometimes he patted it and sometimes he just nudged it to let me know that feelings might be ugly but they are universal and I am not alone. I do not know how to repay him for this kindness.
Please just go read this.