A review by monagle
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

emotional informative mysterious sad medium-paced

5.0

A truly staggering work of narrative nonfiction. Keefe masterfully explores both sides of The Troubles while neither condoning nor condemning its participants - atrocities were committed on all sides - and demonstrating how this period in Irish history is still an open wound in the 21st Century. And since the country is so small, Keefe is able to reduce the decades-long conflict to a few key figures without feeling reductive in his reporting. Don't go into the book looking for easy answers; there are none to be had.