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Indlæser... How To Be Safeaf Tom McAllister
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. As a former educator, this book is fun read about a serious subject (school shootings and safety). Worth reading in a post Covid world when everything is being marketed as "for your safety". ( ) When I was in college, I knew a young man who was majoring in Women's Studies. He educated women students about the female experience and told us that none of us were as feminist as he was. If he wrote a novel, I imagine it would be like How to Be Safe. McAllister's female narrator doesn't sound like a woman to me, and the primary purpose of the novel seems to be as a vehicle for McAllister's opinions about gun violence and other issues. I didn't enjoy it. I realize this novel likely isn't everyone's cup of tea, but something about it really spoke to me. Centered around a school shooting in a small town, much of the book is narrated by Anna, an English teacher who was fired just days before her students and coworkers were gunned down. In the aftermath, she is first suspected of involvement with the shooting, then cleared but still tormented by the guilt and trauma of seeing people she's known much of her life murdered. Moreover, Anna wants to be safe, in a world that feels increasingly violent and uncertain. There are pieces of Anna's struggle that I guess I could relate to almost too much and other pieces that feel representative of society, all of which make for a thought-provoking book. Overall, this is a really interesting book, but be forewarned about the subject matter. This satire is a primal scream over the US failure to enact even the most basic national gun control laws. The slow-motion scream comes from the mouth of a cynical, funny, abrasive, loopy, and massively depressed woman named Anna Crawford. She reminded me of the title character in Stephen Florida. My copy of the book is bristling with sticky notes marking so many moments of deadpan humor. Sample: the name of her small Pennsylvania town is “Seldom Falls” – part Norman Rockwell, part vaudeville punchline. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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FORMER TEACHER HAD MOTIVE. Recently suspended for a so-called outburst, high school English teacher Anna Crawford is stewing over the injustice at home when she is shocked to see herself named on television as a suspect in a shooting at the school where she works. Though she is quickly exonerated, and the actual teenage murderer identified, her life is nevertheless held up for relentless scrutiny and judgment as this quiet town descends into media mania. Gun sales skyrocket, victims are transformed into martyrs, and the rules of public mourning are ruthlessly enforced. Anna decides to wholeheartedly reject the culpability she's somehow been assigned, and the rampant sexism that comes with it, both in person and online. A piercing feminist howl written in trenchant prose, How to Be Safe is a compulsively readable, darkly funny expose of the hypocrisy that ensues when illusions of peace are shattered. No library descriptions found. |
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