Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between a bulldozer and a Palestinian home? This book tells the story of Rachel Corrie's short life and sudden death from the words she left behind.
Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between a bulldozer and a Palestinian home? This book tells the story of Rach...
Rachel Corrie's determination to make a better, more peaceful world took her from Olympia, Washington, to the Middle East, where she died in 2003 as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family's 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, letters, and drawings as chosen by her family, reveals her story in her own hand, from her precocious reflections as a young girl to her final emails. Corrie's words--whether writing about...
Rachel Corrie's determination to make a better, more peaceful world took her from Olympia, Washington, to the Middle East, where she died in 2003 a...
