Let Me Stand Alone, Rachel Corrie
Let Me Stand Alone, Rachel Corrie
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Let Me Stand Alone
The Journals of Rachel Corrie

Author: Rachel Corrie

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert; Introduction read by Edward Asner

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2013

Synopsis

Rachel Corries determination to make a better, more peaceful world took her from Olympia, Washington, to the Middle East, where she died in 2003 while trying to block the demolition of a Palestinian familys home in the Gaza Strip. A twenty-three-year-old American activist, Corrie also possessed a striking gift for poetry, writing, and drawing.Let Me Stand Alone, a selection of her journals and letters as chosen by her family, reveals her story in her own hand, from her precocious reflections as a young girl to her final e-mails. Corries wordswhether writing about the looming issues of our time or the ordinary angst of an American teenbring to life all that it means to come of age: a dawning sense of self, a thirst for ones own ideals, and an evolving connection to others, near and far.

About Rachel Corrie

Rachel Corrie (1979–2003) was born into a middle-class family in
Olympia, Washington. She became politically active in what she called “antiwar /
global justice issues,” homing in on US support for Israel against the
Palestinians. She was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement and was killed by an Israeli Defence Forces bulldozer while attempting to protect a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike on October 21, 2018

On March 16 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American peace activist, was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while attempting to protect a Palestinian house in Gaza. The exact circumstances are disputed. The Israeli Defense Forces have claimed that the driver did not see her. Friends of Corrie who wer......more

Goodreads review by Megan on December 09, 2023

there is something so(ooo) overwhelming and gut-wrenching about reading someone's final diary entries and correspondence planning for their future only days before their death (she writes her dad 4 days before the IOF kills her: "let me know if you have any ideas about what I should do with the rest......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on March 21, 2008

The heart-wrenching journals, letters and poems of Rachel Corrie, the most courageous American of the new century. Her voice in this volume speaks out in an immortal call for justice, a voice that can't be silenced by the blade of any bulldozer. Perhaps one day soon her parents, Craig and Cindy, wil......more

Goodreads review by Lacey on August 16, 2015

I listened to this audiobook mostly while I was biking with my dog, so now I find that I "miss" Rachel Corrie when I go biking with a different audiobook. This makes it even more heartbreaking that my "missing" this book is only the most miniscule fraction of what her family and friends felt when sh......more

Goodreads review by Ciara on October 08, 2009

i found this book really hard to read, for two reasons: 1) it's really hard to read a book full of writing by someone who died in such a horrible manner (rachel was a young american activist who got involved with the international solidarity movement & was helping to protect homes in palestine when......more

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