Hardcover, 144 pages
Expected
publication: October 25th 2016 by Penguin Press
On 13 November
2015, Antoine Leiris’s wife, Hélène, was killed, along with 88 other people at
the Bataclan Theatre in Paris, when three men armed with guns and suicide bombs
opened fire on the unsuspecting crowd at a rock concert. Three days later,
Leiris, a young journalist, wrote an open letter on Facebook addressed to his
wife’s killers. Leiris refused to be cowed or to let his 17-month-old son’s
life be defined by Hélène’s murder. He refused to let the killers have their
way. ‘For as long as he lives, this little boy will insult you with his
happiness and freedom,’ he wrote. Instantly, that short Facebook post caught
fire. It was shared over two hundred thousand times and was reported on all
over the world. In his beautiful and moving defiance of the terrorists who had
killed his wife, Leiris became an international hero to everyone searching
desperately for a way to deal with the horror of the attacks.You Will Not Have My Hate is an extraordinary and heartbreaking memoir about how Leiris, and his baby son Melvil, endured after Hélène’s murder. With courage, moral acuity, and absolute emotional honesty, Leiris finds a way to answer the question, how can I go on? This is the rare and unforgettable testimony of a survivor, and a universal message of hope and resilience. Leiris is guiding star for us all in perilous times.
My Thoughts…
Antoine Leiris
could have written this book in so many ways.
Instead of focusing on the horrific event of the Bataclan Theatre
bombings in Paris he took his story and spun it into a beautiful tale. You Will Not Have My Hate is the tale of a
husband and father having to figure out how to live life without the love of
his life by his side. He takes the
loss of his wife and the loss of his son’s mother and makes it into something
that made him stronger. Antoine
steps up, continues to live, and continues to make a happy existence for his
son.
The story is
not long, only 144 pages, yet there is such a punch to the story. My heart was tugged at, my mind was
tested, and my life was affected. I
stopped and thought about how my life could be changed if something happen to
my husband, what if something happen to me and he had to take over… it opened
my eyes to what those who lost someone have to do just to get through the
day.
This is an
inspiring story. I look up to Antoine
and I have never met him. Not everyone
can go through the loss of a spouse in the way he has and come out not full of
hate.
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