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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista
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amy_park's review
dark
medium-paced
3.5
Utterly harrowing and haunting. Not my "typical" type of read but was prompted to give it a go as it's on the longlist for the women's prize for non fiction 2024. This investigative journalistic memoir was eyeopening. I was shocked and horrified throughout, at the many eyewitness testimonies and pure grief families suffered during the drug war was relentless.
This book is not for the fainthearted. I was in such a state of horror throughout reading it did make me slightly disconnect from the book, but that definetly is on me.
I didn't jell with the occasional passages on language and definitions, I think this was just my personal preference and I was in a state of overwhelm, so wasn't able to digest these sections (and some of the stories of killings) as much as I wanted too.
I learnt alot from this book and made me question how precarious democracy is and how anybody's life can easily change due to extreme political power.
This book is not for the fainthearted. I was in such a state of horror throughout reading it did make me slightly disconnect from the book, but that definetly is on me.
I didn't jell with the occasional passages on language and definitions, I think this was just my personal preference and I was in a state of overwhelm, so wasn't able to digest these sections (and some of the stories of killings) as much as I wanted too.
I learnt alot from this book and made me question how precarious democracy is and how anybody's life can easily change due to extreme political power.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Murder, Gun violence, Police brutality, Torture, and Mass/school shootings
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