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  "description": "Hanif has this way of reaching into your chest and ripping your heart out in the most tender, loving way possible. A book about music but a book that uses music as a lense through which the author explores culture, human relationships and — well — life. One of the things I (and so many others) have found is that music can and does transform your life. I don't mean playing it (though I'm sure that's also true), but enjoying it — experiencing it. I've made some lifelong friends through that shared interest. Some of the nicest people I've met have played the loudest and most abrasive music. Even now, I’m not as invested in things getting better as I am in things getting honest. I'm more touched by Hanif's experience of seeing Carly Rae Jepson than I am by her music and his words about Fall Out Boy are more touching than I find their music to be (and I love their music). How will I explain to my child that people die and we do nothing? How do we explain to a child that children have been buried and we were sad but could not let go of our principles and our history and the violence that is born and reborn from it - that we cling to our guns, those small deadly gods, more tightly than our neighbors?”",
  "path": "/reading/books/1937512657/they-cant-kill-us-until-they-kill-us",
  "publishedAt": "2024-12-02T00:00:00Z",
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  "tags": [
    "music",
    "nonfiction"
  ],
  "title": "They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us"
}