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emelyeverafter 's review for:
Salvador
by Joan Didion
As a Salvadoran citizen, this book felt like an insult to me and to everything my ancestors endured. It’s heartbreaking because I’ve long admired Didion and her writing, and I was genuinely excited to see that she had written about my small country. However, I should have anticipated that, as a U.S. reporter, her perspective would be shaped by biases regarding El Salvador. She glossed over the terror inflicted by both the U.S. government and the Salvadoran government, failing to give a full account of the pain and struggles my people experienced.