A review by thegayngelgabriel
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

5.0

This book took me almost five months to read entirely, partially because it is a dense legal history spanning some forty years, and more importantly, it is a witness to a huge amount of past and present human suffering, to a level of abuse of power that remains hard to fathom, to many many people working relentlessly for a level of justice they know will and can only be inadequate. It's a hard book to read. It is an incredible piece of work, and I am deeply deeply grateful it exists. It is as close to the truth as most people today can access about what happened at Attica, and it sheds a light on so many related struggles, in the past and right now.