RaveThe New York Times Book Review... the superbly written Sisters in Hate...undermines many common assumptions about the far right ... While ruthless in her condemnation of racist ideology, she suggests how that ideology becomes inseparable from a person’s sense of herself, and presents a strong case that comprehending this is crucial if we are to battle white supremacy. Her focus on the lives of three very different women makes her book as readable as a good novel; skillfully combined with history and analysis, her subjects’ stories provide a better picture of the forces driving white backlash than several of the best sellers that attempted to do so in the wake of Trump’s election ... Darby draws on familiar studies in behavioral science that show the importance of repetition ... Darby writes that her years spent studying white nationalism have inclined her to pessimism, but her book ends on a hopeful note.
