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Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

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rh_222006's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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emotional medium-paced

1.0

i actually found the book to be relatively okay and enjoyed her anthropologist perspective. unfortunately, though, i think hagerty is full of shit. towards the end of the book she discusses how she’s stepping away from analyzing the bones of victims and instead focusing her time to help prevent future genocides from happening. sounds great! however i decided to look at her social media and she’s been silent on the genocide currently happening in palestine. but don’t fret! she’s is promoting her book about genocide!

i already take issue with people who have stayed silent these past few months, but when you write a book about how genocide is bad, you should probably condemn a genocide when it’s happening. especially when you consider it your line of work. all of the book was left invalid for me after discovering her silence on the matter. the experiences and heartache that felt real in the memoir suddenly clouded for me and felt ingenuine after the fact.