Letter to My Rage
An Evolution
by Lidia Yuknavitch
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Pub Date 25 Aug 2020
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*Not recommend for younger readers...
Letter to My Rage opens in a clinic where the author is waiting to be tested for Covid 19 antibodies, seeing the president on the television screen leaves her furious, seething with anger. She’s furious that we are so unprepared for the Pandemic, furious about her own past it seems, her relationship with her Father. She goes on to talk about how the rage does not destroy her but has changed her and compelled her.
The murder of George Floyd leaves her seething. Lidia joins the protests and asks that if men’s anger is frequently used to reinforce an unequal system—as in the grotesque spectacle of a white man’s knee on a Black man’s neck—how can women’s be used? How can her own? Can it be as constructive as it is destructive? Can it create something that was not there before and not just for her? In that waiting room she realizes the answer in the body that has contained the rage for years, in her very blood, she can offer protection to others, fuel for others and activism, her blood can bring a chance for a cure.
I give Letter to My Rage three out of five stars...
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