We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America, by Roxanna Asgarian.

I don’t really have any poetics in me when it comes to this one. I loved the author’s compassion. I loved her investigation. I loved her singular focus on the birth families of the children first and her objective highlight of the systemic issues we tend to individualize as a way to excuse our culpability in these systems’ continuation. This book is extremely heavy but so necessary, I feel. It is really, really, really good.

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Shonteria Gibson