A review by meant2breading
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

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5.0

“Must it be the case that how one perceives a tragedy will forever dependent on where one sits?”

Insightful, heartbreaking, and terrifying. Truly a prodigious amount of research and reporting by Patrick Radden Keefe, yet he makes that feel effortless on the page as this read for me as easy as one of my favorite fiction novels. It was easy to turn the page, but mentally at times it was tough to. Even now that I’ve  finished I am still feeling its chilling impact. I appreciate the partiality of the author in this story, without it, I don’t know that we would have been gifted such an intimate view of the complexity of the Troubles, including its politics, questions of ethics and morality, or understanding radicalization and the justification for violence (though we primarily  see this in the form of violent resistance from the IRA). Re-reading this and more from Keefe for sure!
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