A review by buckyshuman
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

2.75

Context for my lower rating:

• I generally don’t like nonfiction. I picked this up because I thought it was going to be a bit different than your usual nonfiction book.
• From the title and description, I thought it was going to be primarily stories of people in Rwanda. There was a mismatch of expectations vs what I read.
• This book was published in 1998. There’s been so much that has happened to the country since then.

I understand and appreciate this is an important book. It also was written at a time where a reporter could be straightforward and say this is genocide or the government is wrong without “both siding it’.”

But unfortunately, it read a bit like your typical nonfiction book— a fleshed out wiki page. This is not a criticism of the book just my preference of the style I read.