courtneyblack's review
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Such a beautiful read, it will surely become a classic. A reflection on grief and loss in a beautiful way, trying to navigate reality when everything feels lost. A father who has to play both parental roles for the first time. The triviality of other mourners. It is just gorgeous. As someone only recently experience grief myself this really helped me to understand my feelings, it is easily a 5 star read.
“You don’t even have time to take stock of what’s happened to you before the parade of sorrys in black suits has already begun.”
“Clinging to our habits is a way of shutting out the terrible and the wonderful.”
“You don’t even have time to take stock of what’s happened to you before the parade of sorrys in black suits has already begun.”
“Clinging to our habits is a way of shutting out the terrible and the wonderful.”
dxtrjames's review
emotional
sad
medium-paced
5.0
"No one can be healed of death. All they can do is tame it. Death is a wild animal, sharp-fanged. I am just trying to build a cage to keep it locked in. It is there, beside me, drooling as it waits to devour me. The bars of the cage that protect me are made of paper."
November 13, 2005. France was hit by its biggest terrorist attack since World War II. This is an account of a husband who lost his wife in the said violent event.
You Will Not Have My Hate is a very nuanced perspective on how to deal with losing someone to terrorism. Instead of succumbing to anger, the author dedicated this book to his dearly departed wife. More than anything, this is an ode to his "moon", a celebration the life she lived.
This is grief in its most beautiful form. This book is both sad and stunningly written. You Will Not Have My Hate and Antoine Leiris and his son will have all my love.
"The moon must set. Today, the sun rises on our new "once upon a time." The story of a father and a son who go on living alone, without the aid of the star to whom they swore allegiance."
sophie_the_cardinal's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0