A review by monkeyhippy
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence

5.0

Incredibly well-researched and well-written, this is one of those rare non-fiction books that engages the reader (or at least this one) like good fiction... or maybe even moreso, because the characters are real people. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the realities of war, refugee camps, East Africa, humanitarian aid... or simply very different and challenging life circumstances in another place in the world, and how people survive them.