6/3/2023 0 Comments Shout by Laurie Halse AndersonI hope that people will read her book and feel less alone. It’s as if she is using her words not only to call out injustices, but also to rewrite the narrative of her life. The second half, which she calls a manifesto, is her empowering reflection on rape culture and the ways in which sexual violence has become rampant.Īnderson’s language is raw, moving, empowering, and full of anger. In the book’s first half, Anderson recounts the events in her life that led to the writing of her best-selling novel Speak. Written in free verse, Anderson’s deeply personal stories ferociously confront the issues of rape, sexual abuse, and how society treats those who find the courage to speak up. This is the triumphant message in Laurie Halse Anderson’s powerful new memoir, Shout. After years of being silenced, books helped me build the courage to share and tell these stories. Whenever I witnessed injustices around me, I curled up inside of a book in an attempt to make sense of them. Laurie Halse Anderson, född 23 oktober 1961 i Potsdam i delstaten New York, är en amerikansk författare. Because I was afraid to speak up, I found myself resorting to books and stories to understand my place in the world. Growing up in an insular community, I often felt voiceless as a woman. “This is the story of a girl who lost her voice and wrote herself a new one.”
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