Lys’s Reviews > I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays – A TIME Must-Read Collection on Political Transformation and the Fractured American Dream > Status Update

Essay 3 was about uncontrollable blood sugar and being ill as a teenager, school attendance and extracurriculars, Broadway and grind culture, disability and prioritizing rest and self care.

Second essay was about neoliberalism, Clinton, college, business, and the lie that democrats were sold about how to succeed and do good in the it's and aughts...and how the world is reaping what was sown in that time.

Essay 1 is about juvenile diabetes and managing t1 diabetes. Lots ot time jumps, with emphasis on childhood, the pandemic, and times the author was seriously ill.