Inside the Turmoil: Unraveling the Raw Truths of Love and Rejection in Alison Kinney’s Bold Memoir
What results is 262 pages of stories and analysis meant to push your thinking about how much of American life actually centers on the idea of rejecting others. This may sound like quite a dreary book indeed, but one of the ways Kinney counters that feeling is through the idea that not all rejections are bad.
Take society’s ultimate rejection of the KKK as racist bigots, for example. Or Sarah Bache’s rejection of Thomas Paine in a letter to her father, Benjamin Franklin, which includes one of the best roasts I’ve read in a while: “The most rational thing (Paine) could have done would have been to have died the instant he had finished his Common Sense, for he never again will have it in his power to leave the World with so much credit.” (Apparently Paine’s esteem in society went downhill quickly after he published his most famous book.)
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