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From Truthdig.com
  By all rights, “Let Me Stand Alone” should not be an easy book to read.
Doom hangs over this collection of the journal writings of Rachel Corrie,
who was a 23-year-old American peace activist when she was crushed to
death by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer in Gaza five years ago.
And
yet most of this book whizzes by in a series of delights: in
descriptions of autumn football games in Washington state, and ice in
the winter mornings, of war seen on television, of the wind, of
Corrie’s grandparents’ house in Des Moines, the used-book store in
Aitkin, Minn., her mother tending to her dying grandmother, her own
face. And this is all before the age of 14.
When she was 2 years old,
she looked at Capitol Lake in Olympia, Wash., her hometown, and said
(famously, in her family): “This is the wide world, and I’m coming to
it.”
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