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Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie Audiobook
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Rachel Corrie's determination to make a better, more peaceful world took her from Olympia, Washington, to the Middle East, where she died in 2003 while trying to block the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in the Gaza Strip. A twenty-three-year-old American activist, Corrie also possessed a striking gift for poetry, writing, and drawing. Let Me Stand Alone, a selection of her journals and letters as chosen by her family, reveals her story in her own hand, from her precocious reflections as a young girl to her final emails. Corrie's words—whether writing about the looming issues of our time or the ordinary angst of an American teen—bring to life all that it means to come of age: a dawning sense of self, a thirst for one's own ideals, and an evolving connection to others, near and far.
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“Poignant and impressive…A smart and passionategirl of conscience who wanted to see the world and become a dancer, artist, andwriter, Rachel evolved into a radiant and compassionate soul who wrote withcandor, lyricism, and drive about all the usual preoccupations of youth…Rachel’scharming, prescient, and haunting chronicles trace the coming-into-her-ownof an altruistic and courageous woman who loved life yet was willing torisk all for what she knew was right.”
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“A testament to how deeply we need the power and vision and energy of young women to transform the world.”
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“In the early pages of Let Me Stand Alone there is the sense of someone comfortable with the notion of revealing her inner world on the page: the style is uninhibited, experimental, confident…What emerges is someone who could be variously idealistic, knowing,self-deprecating, earnest, quirky, pretentious, fanciful, melodramatic, obsessive, flip, and wise …a girl discovering her own lucid and original voice.”
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“A gripping memoir by a youthful idealist.”
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“Opens a window on the maturation of a young woman seeking to make the world a better place through social activism.”
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“[Corrie’s] honest, sometimes scathing renditions of the dark passages and fierce attachments of adolescence and young womanhood in the 1990s possess authenticity and power.”
— Adrienne Rich, National Book Award–winning author -
“A born writer. It’s like jumping inside someone’s soul. Her relentless, undiluted humanity is inspiring and profoundly moving. And she makes you laugh.”
— Alan Rickman
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About Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie (1979–2003) was born into a middle-class family in
Olympia, Washington. She became politically active in what she called “antiwar /
global justice issues,” homing in on US support for Israel against the
Palestinians. She was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement and was killed by an Israeli Defence Forces bulldozer while attempting to protect a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip.
About Tavia Gilbert
Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed narrator of more than four hundred full-cast and multivoice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry. Named the 2018 Voice of Choice by Booklist magazine, she is also winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has earned numerous Earphones Awards, a Voice Arts Award, and a Listen-Up Award. Audible.com has named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir. In addition to voice acting, she is an accomplished producer, singer, and theater actor. She is also a producer, singer, photographer, and a writer, as well as the cofounder of a feminist publishing company, Animal Mineral.