I recommended Philip Gourevitch’s Rwanda book to my friend Allison one night. We were out at a loud crazy bar, and I was screaming the title laboriously into her ear. “WE WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT TOMORROW WE WILL BE KILLED WITH OUR FAMILIES!!”
Later in the night, she said, “Oh, wait a minute…What was the name of that book you recommended earlier? ‘Please Forgive Me But I’m About to be Killed In front of My Mother’??”
