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A review by bmarchman
Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country by Cristina Rivera Garza
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
I picked up this masterfully written book because lately I have wanted to understand what happens in our world not from an academic study of first-hand accounts, but from authors who live or or talk to those that have.
This book expertly introduces its thesis, that the horrors of violence in Mexico which typically stop action can be challenged with giving voice to trauma and mourning, via multiple essays and poems from the early 2000s to 2020. Each piece compels us to think about the state’s responsibility to care for its citizens, and how individual and collective action can work to dismantle a horror that feels unchallengeable.
This book expertly introduces its thesis, that the horrors of violence in Mexico which typically stop action can be challenged with giving voice to trauma and mourning, via multiple essays and poems from the early 2000s to 2020. Each piece compels us to think about the state’s responsibility to care for its citizens, and how individual and collective action can work to dismantle a horror that feels unchallengeable.