Review of "Next time they'll come to count the dead" on Goodreads
5 stars
Nick Turse’s incredibly vivid and bracing recounting of the dire situation in South Sudan was difficult to read not because of prose, but because of the constant inhumanity. He expertly highlights the fragility of a new nation midwifed and largely ignored by the United States. This is a nation carrying the ghosts of decades of civil war and ethnic-based killing.
From the countless individual stories of suffering to the grandiose political and social obstacles the country faces, Turse carefully tells each narrative with the attention of a witness. He reserves judgment for the heinous while maintaining a reverence for human life that shines through mayhem he relates.
Read this book to understand what despair looks and sounds like, what resilience looks and sounds like, and then go on with your renewed sympathy and empathy and lift the world up however you can.