Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson blew me away. This is a memoir in poetry of a sexual assault survivor. The style, the words, the power of the words fills this book with a story of pain, strength, perseverance, loathing, determination. When I finished reading it, I sat stunned and in awe at this author's mad skills.
p. 3 this book is yesterday's mud
dried on the dance floor
the step patterns
cautiously submitted
for your curious investigation
of what I feel like
on the inside
See what I mean, yes it's poetry (and folks tend to shy away from it. I know I have in the past).
But it draws you in as our heroine withdraws and then opens up, digs deeper, and lets you into her soul.
By the end, you will want to Shout the praises of Laurie Halse Anderson
