I tend to be kind of defeatist and pessimistic when it comes to the state of the world, including and maybe especially the US government. But Sarah McBride has a contagious optimism that really swept me up. She shares so many stories of triumph- interpersonal, local, regional and national- from her life as an activist for LGBTQIA+/human rights in America. She’s not naive, and has had a lot of shit flung at her, but there’s so much hope to be found in her journey as an activist and staunch believer in the power of government since she was 13(!) years old. There’s also a good bit about her husband Andy, who was also an audaciously hopeful and loving activist and person, until he died of cancer before he turned 30. Their love story is so beautiful and the loss so tragic, it wrecked me; I was crying in my car on the way to work listening to it. As a whole I was pretty riveted with everything in this book, and I’m grateful for writers and activists like Sarah who put everything on the line in their work and share their stories with such tenacity and optimism and vulnerability. Highly recommend this book to everyone.