Osa Atoe apžvelgė autoriaus Albert Woodfox knygą Solitary
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“If you can breathe, you can get through anything.”
I lived in Louisiana for seven years. I knew people who would go to Angola for the prison rodeo and craft fair and I could never bring myself to go. After reading Solitary, I now understand the facts to support what I’d always felt in my gut. The land where Angola Prison sits is saturated with the poison of generational curses earned through centuries of violence, torture and exploitation.
It feels cliche to say that this book is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, but it is indeed about just that. The most important parts of this book to me describe the self-discipline and will power involved in maintaining one’s sanity and dignity under the most trying, inhumane circumstances.
The first quarter of the book goes quickly. It was actually fun to hear about what New Orleans life …
“If you can breathe, you can get through anything.”
I lived in Louisiana for seven years. I knew people who would go to Angola for the prison rodeo and craft fair and I could never bring myself to go. After reading Solitary, I now understand the facts to support what I’d always felt in my gut. The land where Angola Prison sits is saturated with the poison of generational curses earned through centuries of violence, torture and exploitation.
It feels cliche to say that this book is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, but it is indeed about just that. The most important parts of this book to me describe the self-discipline and will power involved in maintaining one’s sanity and dignity under the most trying, inhumane circumstances.
The first quarter of the book goes quickly. It was actually fun to hear about what New Orleans life was like for Woodfox in the 1960s. The book slows down immensely during the course of his 44 year sentence to solitary, not so much because of the mundanity of that experience but because of the detailed description of trials and other legal manners. Much of the length of this book is filled with this type of content. It was a bit of a slog to get through, but all I could imagine is that if I was wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in solitary, I’d be replaying the details of my court case over and over in my head, obsessing over every contradiction, too.