Early in the book Gourevitch addresses the reader: "Perhaps, in examining this extremity with me, you hope for some understanding, some insight, some flicker of self-knowledge - a moral, or a lesson, or a clue about how to behave in this world: some such information. I don't discount the possibility, but when it comes to genocide, you already know right from wrong. The best reason I have come up with for looking closely into Rwanda's stories is that ignoring them makes me even more uncomfortable about existence and my place in it."There aren't any easy lessons here. There's just looking, which, as Gourevitch points out, is worthwhile of itself. The book is engrossing, terrible, important, and horrific.
Highly recommended.
