Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves av Alexa Hagerty

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<p>ONE OF THE NEW YORKER''S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR<br>CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES'' READERS'' FOR BEST BOOKS OF 2023<br>A NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS EDITOR'' S CHOICE<br><br><b>''Essential reading as a human.'' -</b><b> Alex Marzano-Lesnevich</b><br><b>''Chilling and vital. . . sensitive and thought-provoking</b>.'' - <i><b>The Times</b><br></i><br><b>An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims'' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice.</b><br><br><i>"Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration-of building something new with the pile of broken mirrors that is loss and mourning."</i><br><br>Over the course of Guatemala''s thirty-year armed conflict -the longest ever in Central America-over 200,000 people were killed. During Argentina''s military dict