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Rumpus Book ClubThe Search for Remorse
“In the end, Steavenson found so little reflection and regret among her living subjects that she had to turn for redemption to a man who died over a decade ago – a cog of the torture regime who is no longer around to confirm or deny that ‘he was full of something that he would not have known how to call remorse.’”
George Packer on Wendell Steavenson’s The Mustard Seed, a work of narrative non-fiction where the author searches for regret among members of Saddam Hussein’s regime but is unable to find any. Packer calls it, “One of the few lasting works to come out of the war.” (via The Millions)
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