A review by ehmannky
Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

dark emotional sad slow-paced

4.0

A look at the ongoing efforts to recover the bodies of those murdered during the Guatemalan and Argentinian dictatorships in South American during the 1900s. It's a sad and difficult to read book, and there's just sort of a depth of suffering that comes across so matter-of-factually during Hagerty's recounting of her experiences assisting these teams. It's a hard book to feel particularly hopeful after, though it does feel you with admiration for the people who are actively looking to recover the missing. I also feel like it gives you a more concrete and human understanding of just what it means that the US supported these governments and encouraged this widespread violence. 
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