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Duizend Zusjes (2011)

by Lisa J. Shannon(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

De Boekerij

review 1: I only gave this book a "2" because I didn't really like her writing style. But obviously the content of the book is astounding. The most disturbing thing about this book is the fact that I had no idea what kinds of atrocities are going on in that part of the world. One of my favorite parts of this book is a part where one woman who has been through unimaginable horror is asked what she's thinking now, and she says "I want to know what God's plan is for me." I wish I could have that same faith, trust, hope, and humility, in the midst of my own trials, which pale in comparison to hers.
review 2: Whew, this is a tough one. On the one hand, you have to admire someone who takes up a cause unrelated to her with her whole heart, throwing family and jobs under the... more bus...but then you want to know why. Why this cause and not the hundreds of others? She attempts to answer this question by traveling to the Congo - but then seems intent on merely totting up the atrocities. How many of you have lost children? she would ask, pressing for details. For what purpose? An accounting of atrocities to make sense of it all? To be fair, she seemed aware of the tenuous moral position she was in - a white North American woman trying to fix things in a place she knew nothing about - but that doesn't make her meddling any more palatable to read about. Icky. less

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