Posted by It’s spring! Here’s a bit of what I’ve been consuming.
Random Acts of Senseless Violence depicts a country’s political and social implosion as seen through the eyes of a young girl coming of age, and it’s nothing short of haunting and prophetic. The descriptions of families destroyed by mass economic insolvency and young children being indoctrinated into a culture of reactionary fear and intolerance were probably heinous to read in 1993. But in 2019? Well, Brooklyn might not be on fire, let’s just say a lot of these notes seem awful familiar.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1129928.Random_Acts_of_Senseless_Violence
This is one of those stories where nine out of ten things are real, but one is not. Set against the Chilean coup in the early 1970’s, Distant Star is the story of the rise of a different kind of poet, during a terrible time.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63030.Distant_Star
