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The Truths We Hold: Young Reader's Edition
by Kamala Harris
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review - The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris
This review has been made possible thanks to @NetGalley and @vintagebooks for providing me with an Advance Reader's Copy in exchange for an honest review.
I went into the memoir knowing very little about Kamala Harris and her professional and personal lives prior to her taking up her role as Vice President. However, she does an incredibly thorough job of explaining her upbringing, the communities she grew up in, her parents’ backgrounds and all of her work history to show how she’s come a very long way, from the DA’s office to now and how those experiences have influenced how she supports the people and stands for justice now at every opportunity.
I was particularly fascinated with her work prior to her senator role, where she campaigned for changes to be made to improve lives of the people within her and impoverished communities across California and the rest of the US. She ties local or even individual issues into a host of larger, systemic issues that need to be resolved at a higher level, which is the kind of change she aims to do. She relates it back to the diverse and integral members of her community and how they worked to make changes in the 70s and 80s and she now sees this as an opportunity to make change herself.
The writing was very clear, she painted a very detailed picture of the cases she worked with and took you through other linked aspects that contributed to it, and then Harris demonstrated how and what steps she took in order to resolve problems for her constituents. I felt the responsibility she bears every day, trying to make the world a better place for her family and her community and now the whole American public. She references her immigrant mother’s role in her upbringing and how it relates to the struggles experienced by immigrants in the US today. This has been a very powerful and eye-opening book to issues I was aware of in passing but I never knew the individual roles that were taken to resolve issues.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in politics, biographies, or teenagers wondering whether their voice will be heard and whether they can make a difference, regardless of which background they hail from. Everyone has a voice and a chance to implement change.
This review has been made possible thanks to @NetGalley and @vintagebooks for providing me with an Advance Reader's Copy in exchange for an honest review.
I went into the memoir knowing very little about Kamala Harris and her professional and personal lives prior to her taking up her role as Vice President. However, she does an incredibly thorough job of explaining her upbringing, the communities she grew up in, her parents’ backgrounds and all of her work history to show how she’s come a very long way, from the DA’s office to now and how those experiences have influenced how she supports the people and stands for justice now at every opportunity.
I was particularly fascinated with her work prior to her senator role, where she campaigned for changes to be made to improve lives of the people within her and impoverished communities across California and the rest of the US. She ties local or even individual issues into a host of larger, systemic issues that need to be resolved at a higher level, which is the kind of change she aims to do. She relates it back to the diverse and integral members of her community and how they worked to make changes in the 70s and 80s and she now sees this as an opportunity to make change herself.
The writing was very clear, she painted a very detailed picture of the cases she worked with and took you through other linked aspects that contributed to it, and then Harris demonstrated how and what steps she took in order to resolve problems for her constituents. I felt the responsibility she bears every day, trying to make the world a better place for her family and her community and now the whole American public. She references her immigrant mother’s role in her upbringing and how it relates to the struggles experienced by immigrants in the US today. This has been a very powerful and eye-opening book to issues I was aware of in passing but I never knew the individual roles that were taken to resolve issues.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in politics, biographies, or teenagers wondering whether their voice will be heard and whether they can make a difference, regardless of which background they hail from. Everyone has a voice and a chance to implement change.