Inside the Turmoil: Unraveling the Raw Truths of Love and Rejection in Alison Kinney’s Bold Memoir
Rejection is one of those things we all have experienced but usually don’t like to talk about. There was the crush who turned you down for a date, the dream job that didn’t call you for an interview, the kids who wouldn’t let you join their game on the playground.
Writer Alison Kinney heard many of these anecdotes from people she told about her project to write a book about rejection. While her book, United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope (University of Georgia Press; May 2026), includes all of those examples, she expands the word “rejection” to take on the ideas of “systemic bigotry, institutional exclusion, deportation, Treaty abrogation, and the self-help codified in policies claiming that if you can’t overcome rejections you’re not trying hard enough.”
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