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August 31, 2005


We Wish to Inform You
I'm about half-way through Philip Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. I ordered it after Gourevitch's work on Rwanda was mentioned in an article by Samantha Power -- an article I dug up because Barack Obamas recently hired on Power as a foreign policy adviser. Power writes that in the President Clinton reportedly scrawled "is what he's saying true?" and "how did this happen?" in the margins of a Gourevitch article on Rwanda. What I really like about the book so far is the style of it. Gourevitch doesn't just report the story of what happened in Rwanda in 1994. He engages in it. He pokes and prods at it. When an interviewee says something that Gourevitch can't understand, he goes on for a bit about why he can't understand it. He talks back to the damn story. It's a literary approach to non-fiction and it works well for something like Rwanda, a story that's pretty much incomprehensible when told in the form of "this happened and then this happened and then this happened."


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Nancy Scola I'm a Brooklyn-based writer obsessed with technology, networks, social organizing, and the politics of food. This is my online home where I talk about those things and whatever else strikes my fancy. Learn More
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