A review by alaiyo0685
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan

2.0

I found it hard to connect to the characters in these stories. They are masterfully written, but I would have greatly appreciated something before each story giving readers a sense of the setting and historical context of the conflict the story zooms in on. Without that, the struggle, strife, and unbelievable violence of these stories seems very arbitrary and anonymous.