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    Letter to My Rage: An Evolution
    Letter to My Rage: An Evolution
    Letter to My Rage: An Evolution
    Audiobook43 minutes

    Letter to My Rage: An Evolution

    Written by Lidia Yuknavitch

    Narrated by Nan McNamara

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    Lidia Yuknavitch has described a writer as “a locus through which intensities pass.” The passions Yuknavitch has brought to bear in her bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children and in her searing memoir The Chronology of Water are a testament not only to her outsize powers as a writer but to her daring, a readiness to upend the status quo and the expectations people have of her as a woman, artist, and citizen. And now, when it’s become undeniable that our societal norms are not merely unjust but, for too many Americans, deadly, when public anger is at an all-time high, who better than Yuknavitch to help us acknowledge this moment—in all its horror, absurdity, and pain? She does so here in a direct address to her rage.

    Letter to My Rage opens in a clinic where the author is waiting to be tested for COVID-19 antibodies. A sighting of the unmasked face of the president on the clinic TV makes her travel “beyond anger” to seethe at an administration ill-prepared to battle a pandemic or confront the racial and economic disparities that ensure vulnerability not just to disease but to a host of human brutalities. And she doesn’t stop there—she can’t. Throughout her life, rage, rather than destroying her, has transformed and compelled her: It was rage that forced her to claim her body: its blood, heat, and power; that ushered her into a world of ideas; and that would show her that where the political and the personal intersect, art flourishes, community and solidarity are found, and change begins. With the murder of George Floyd, her rage reaches an apotheosis. She 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? As she sits in that waiting room, she knows the answer is in the body that’s contained her rage for so long, in her very blood; it can offer protection, fuel for others’ activism, a chance for a cure.

    This incendiary, cathartic account from one of our most fearless writers urges us to reassess and reclaim one of our most intense emotions during unrelentingly intense and troubling times.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverand Originals
    Release dateAug 25, 2020
    ISBN9781094411156
    Author

    Lidia Yuknavitch

    Lidia Yuknavitch is the national bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, Dora: A Headcase, and the memoir The Chronology of Water. Her acclaimed TED Talk “The Beauty of Being a Misfit” has over 2 million views. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards, a Willamette Writers Award, and was a finalist for the 2017 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the 2012 Pen Center Creative Nonfiction Award. She writes, teaches, and lives in Portland, Oregon.

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    • 5/5
      OMG. Ms. Yakovitch captures my own 50 years of debating, marching & now in 2023, crushing despair.
    • 5/5
      Wow, this is an X-Ray of every woman's rage journey. From the moment we first bleed into the Earth to the moment we come into power. Thank you for putting this into words.
    • 4/5
      I liked this.
      Written in the form of letters. Letters written to one’s own rage. Asking the tough questions.. questions I’ve asked. Where does this rage come from? What am I supposed to do with it?
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this. It was lyrical and short.
      I don’t know if it’s just me or if everyone these days suffers from attention span deficiency, but I feel like most books go on long past the point of being effective. Actually, some books go on long enough to convince me of the opposite of whatever it is they’re saying. This book didn’t.
    • 1/5
      Mmm?? chill a little …… that’s all I take away

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      short yet so impactful, she manages to catch my rage that I feel as well
    • 5/5
      Beautifully written and gut-renchingly true and honest. It is also very sad.
    • 5/5
      Excellent book, deep, insightful and would highly recommend to anyone seeking a resemblance of understanding when it comes to their rage.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      It’s interesting and uplifting in a way but largely performative meaning no actual solutions are mentioned.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Maybe the folks crying about this read should try something more tailored for their simple minds; I suggest Hop on Pop!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      A bit empty to be honest. Seemed more pretentious than anything else, but I believe the original idea was good.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      There's some excellent parts to this piece. But if we want to stop having to rage against sexism, racism and the horrors of the current system we're going to need liberation, not just some women in politics. We should all be as angry as the author about all the atrocities of capitalism.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Great article! It resonates with the ‘now’! I would have loved to read more!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Just what I needed to hear. I didn’t know how to articulate how I felt about what is going on in our world today until I listened to this book. Perfectly said

      5 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Imagine being upset about a book you don’t have to read lol

      6 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      She was definitely filled with rage alright. Good read, I guess.
    • 5/5
      I love the book I enjoyed listening to it. Keep on writing and sharing. Recommended read

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I'm angry at those who tried to silence us. I'm angry at the patriarchal system that put their feet around our necks. I'm angry at the societal limitations. I'm angry at everything that takes women down. I'm angry at those who are racists toward minorities and people of colour. I'm angry at islamophobes, homophobes and any sort of segregation. I angry at those who work with dishonesty and exploit others. I'm angry at everyone and everything that ruin people and take their rights by force. Women must be wise, knowledgeable and empowered. Raising awareness is the most important thing ??
    • 5/5
      Wonderful call to action. Extreme kudos to her directed anger. Angry people need to unite against deeply embedded racism, bigotry of American society. Only by MAINTAINING FOCUS can we succeed. UNfocussed anger will ONLY DETRACT from our goals. We must not become distracted as MAGA is doing. "Don't burn down barn to get rid of rats."

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Oh please now self indulgent whining claptrap is considered good writing?

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Just a rant blaming everything on Trump. Not interesting the least

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      At the very least, this has definitely made me interested in reading her memoir, The Chronology of Water.
    • 1/5
      Starts out with a pro BLM rant. This author is psychotic.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Get Over It. I am tired of this kind of anti cop. Anti Trump. BS that I get from every talking head and so called comedians 24/7.

      1 person found this helpful