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Draw your weapons sarah sentilles5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Her most recent book, Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours, was published by Random House in 2021. ![]() Draw Your Weapons stirs and confronts, disturbs and illuminates. Sarah Sentilles is a writer, teacher, critical theorist, scholar of religion, and author of many books, including Draw Your Weapons, which won the 2018 PEN Award for Creative Nonfiction. ![]() Working through the art of one of her students. ![]() A sometimes-scattered though always lyrical meditation on art and artists as witnesses. In the process she challenges conventional thinking about how violence is waged, witnessed and resisted. Imagine that the late Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeanoquoted at points herehad taken an interest in art and its way of interpreting and resisting history, and you have at least a flavor for Sentilles’ (Breaking Up with God, 2011, etc.) essayistic approach to some of the horrors of our time. by Sarah Sentilles RELEASE DATE: July 4, 2017. Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature and theology, Sentilles tells the true stories of a conscientious objector during World War II and a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib. In Draw Your Weapons, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defence of life lived by peace and principle. ![]()
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