The Morning They Came for Us

Janine di Giovanni 2016

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
refugee Syria war journalism

Our Take

Di Giovanni documented the Syrian civil war from inside Aleppo and Homs, recording the specific texture of life under siege — the snipers, the barrel bombs, the moment when normal becomes impossible. Each chapter is a person whose world ended while the rest of us watched the news.

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