A review by hooliaquoolia
The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine di Giovanni

3.0

More of a series of short, 20-page memoirs than a work of substantial journalism. Her accounts are moving and authentically describe the realities of war for a newly sectarian country, but they are so consumed by anecdotes that the true scale of the conflict is somewhat lost. In addition, any organized argument for specific action or intervention on the part of the international community is absent amidst her tunnel-vision focus on anecdotes. I feel like she wanted this book to be a call to action--but what action exactly? And for which side? I am left with questions and little direction, which I doubt was her goal.