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Survivor Cafe: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
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Elizabeth Rosner
Annette Wells
, September 17, 2017
This book is brilliant, as is the author, Elizabeth Rosner. Last night's reading at Browsers Books was transformative, to say the least. I had read most of the book this past week and I came home last night and finished it. I can't wait to talk to her about my queries and thoughts over coffee and breakfast this morning. (She's staying with us while in town.) Lucky us to have met her 16 years ago after the release of The Speed of Light, still one of my top 3 books of all time, and to have formed and nourished a friendship over the ensuing years. I added this book to my favorite nonfiction shelf last night because of her poetic ability to chart a web of awareness with her words. As an educator, as a citizen of this country, as a person living on this planet, this is an important work. In this book, her words offer insight into the absolute necessity of bearing witness and in why we must do so with empathy and a willingness to hold those stories with compassion. With the Holocaust being her throughline, she also touches on other historical connections that remind us that all of us carry forward our own stories as well the stories of our ancestors. Literally in our genetic makeup, as well as our psyches. It is our duty to listen. To lean in, even when that leaning in is difficult. It also became apparent that we must also look at our own lives as a way to heal. To bear witness. Trauma is not just defined as those events that can be found in the literal pages of history, though we must all look there and how they're connected. It is also in the faces of soldiers coming home from war, in the faces and bodies of their children I teach at Salish,in the woman behind you in the grocery store, in the child of a soldier, of the soldier who just wants to be welcomed home, yet to hear those important words. It is also in the mirror. None of us are immune to some life-changing event, even if we need to look back to our ancestral heritage to find it. Go back far enough and it'll be there. Think back to your childhood and ponder how you are different because of your experiences, even if they seem small on the outset. Examine our own DNA and it'll be there too. I'm seeing history differently after reading this book. I'm seeing our connections differently as well, and how on a daily basis I'm bearing witness each time I look someone in the eye, each time I ask a question, each time I'm curious about someone's story, each time I look at how I can listen more deeply. To others. To myself. This book gets all the stars. *****
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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
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Thi Bui
Annette Wells
, March 25, 2017
Absolutely brilliant. (And not YA, for those who asked.) I'm stunned by the artistic genius, not to mention the raw honesty of this graphic memoir. It's a book about forgiveness and compassion for the journey that got us here. An immigrant story that will resonate with readers because it speaks a universal truth. We are all looking for home. This writer offers us all a gift by tracing her history so that we can bear witness to her story as well as our own. All the stars.
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