Jason K. Stearns
PublicAffairs
ISBN 978-1586489298
380 pages
$28.99
Reviewed by Robert Guestis
Most books about Congo's war focus, understandably, on the victims. Perhaps 5 million have died in this central African inferno, though that is a guess -- no one is counting the corpses. Some were murdered with clubs, knives or farm tools. Most died more slowly, ...
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Meghan O'Rourke
Riverhead
ISBN 978-1594487989
306 pages
$25.95
Reviewed by Becky Krystal
Meghan O'Rourke, who writes for Slate.com, had an extraordinary mother. It's hard to come to any other conclusion after reading "The Long Goodbye," a moving memoir of losing a parent and the ensuing tailspin into grief. The reader comes to appreciate Barbara O'Rourke ...
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