Reviews

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch

moriah_grace's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

aa2q7's review against another edition

5.0

Best book I've read on Rwanda's genocide in the early 1990s -- the history, the anatomy, the attacks, the numbers, the interviews, the reporting, everything. Should be required reading.

danielap's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

jordan1978's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

ccnolan's review against another edition

3.0

This book revealed a lot of info to me about the Rwandan genocide that I had not previously known. I appreciated the personal stories the author collected and that he went beyond the few months in 1994 when most of the genocide occurred. The book lost me quite a few times, not sure if it was my comprehension limping along or the way the authors writing was organized.

cpope9's review against another edition

4.0

I last read this almost a decade ago in grad school. It blew my mind to read about such baseless inhumanity and lame-duck politicking around such a fundamentally important situation that’s not even 30 years old.

Reading this time opened my eyes more astutely to the terrors and emotions of the genocide and it’s left me really struggling to reckon with a lot of things: why such inhumanity towards other humans, why such disregard for the lives of others, why such disregard by the entirety of the global community toward this situation, why such stupid pride to refuse to just do the right thing.

Along with the holocaust and imposed famines in China, the Rwandan genocide may be among the quickest and most abhorrent, structured acts of human depravity the world has ever seen, particularly in a post-industrial era. The aftermath showed a further failing of humanity to address why such horror was allowed to fester and grow to what it became.

This book does a brutal job at not only telling the story of the genocide but also holding up a mirror to the rest of the world to expose their responsibility and accountability for what happened.

carysbehnke's review against another edition

4.0

I would like to have read more about the actual why of this genocide and how millions of people were made to turn on each other then immediately accept no blame and share no remorse for their actions.

Regardless, this was strong journalism and a detailed account of true horrors, both in Rwanda and among the West. International negligence, to say the least.

karolinalucas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

katelynanton's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

zxillaisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0