A review by emurph09
The Village of Waiting by George Packer

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Chills at the end. I’ve been looking for this type of memoir that interludes personal reflections of time spent in Togo with history and political analysis. This book personalizes the reverberations of colonization in Togo, and emphasis how the world continues to fail newly liberated countries. This book is now 40 years old, so I’m curious what has changed.