A review by dxtrjames
You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris

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."