Ruslan Suleimanov Suleimanov itibaren Jicalapa, El Salvador
Easily the best book I've read this summer. Super easy read and incredibly fascinating account of the mental care health industry—showing how the judge and jury of mental health is also not a perfect science (how it's harder to prove sanity over insanity; the overclassified DSM IV/V and how that fosters the pharmaceutical companies; are CEO's and dictators just as psychotic as serial murders?) Ronson's perspective is somewhat of a journalist/sleuth, albeit openly laden with his own biases (many of which he'll waver on--but in a humbling sort of way that reveals that even journalists have their biases/ethical grapples). Either way, this book has been out on loan and requested by everyone since I finished reading it, so I highly recommend to anyone.
okonkwos clan was doing fine and had everything set. when the christian missionaries come, everything changes. they need to fight for his beliefs and drive the white men out.
There was a lot I really liked about the book (stylistically, but after a while, some of that got a little device-y), but I just didn't get the ghost thing at all, and that was the biggest drawback, in my opinion. At first I thought it was just Lia's starvation that was making her hallucinate (and that prob would've worked). But then she started interacting with the ghost . . . . and Lia became a girl who seemed much more psychotic (and therefore really messed up) than a girl with an extreme eating disorder. And then I had some nitpicks about the whole friend/eating disorder dynamic that just didn't ring true. But, in all, a very haunting read. And a story that has staying power well after the book is read.
so sad it made me cry several times... but so so good