Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams

I have mixed feelings about this book, published in 2020. First of all, I think there is a lot of good information in it. I learned a lot about efforts to prevent votes from being counted, and efforts to prevent citizens from voting. I think it is a book worth reading, but I also am very critical of this book. The entire perspective of this is book is basically: Democrats have better policy, and the only reason we lose is because Republicans engage in voter suppression. That's a little hyperbolic. But it's a dominant perspective throughout. The book is very well written. Most chapters start with some personal anecdotes. Either stories of her own, or stories of others she's talked to/worked with. We get a first-hand look at how someone, who made a best-effort at voting, got rejected - either they were unable to cast their vote or their ballot was thrown out. She then goes into the details of how each of these cases of voter suppression functioned at an administrative level. There is so…