We Are Not Okay
Elegy for a Broken America
by Christian Livermore
Pub Date 01 Oct 2022
Indie Blu(e) Publishing, Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
Biographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction (Adult)
I am reviewing a copy of We Are Not Okay, Elegy for a Broken America through Indie Blu(e) publishing and Netgalley:
I wanted to love this book, but I didn’t though there were good parts to this one I struggled to get through it. But she did bring up some good points, including how America often treats its poor, and the lifetime of consequences poverty often brings.
Christian Livermore grew up a shy little girl in a turbulent family sunk in poverty, violence, substance abuse and mental illness. She ate government cheese, suffered from malnutrition and struggled to defend her body against threats both outside the house and within it. And even though she made it out, she has suffered a lifetime of consequences since: excruciating health problems, fear and shame. Especially shame. In We Are Not Okay, Livermore's deeply personal and moving essays explore what it means to grow up poor in America and ask whether it is possible to outrun the shame it grinds into your bones.
I give We Are Not Okay three out of five stars
Happy Reading!
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