Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

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$28.00  $26.04
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group (NY)
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Pages
320
Dimensions
5.8 X 8.3 X 1.2 inches | 0.95 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780593443132

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About the Author
Alexa Hagerty is an anthropologist researching science, technology, and human rights. She holds a PhD from Stanford University and is an associate fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research has received honors and funding from the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the American Ethnological Society, among other institutions. She has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Wired, Social Anthropology, and Palais de Tokyo.
Reviews
"Haunted and fascinating . . . lyrical . . . The stories of these excavators of the past are told compellingly in Still Life with Bones."--The New York Times Book Review

"Moving and beautiful, harrowing and horrifying . . . A single sentence can stop you in your tracks. . . . Still Life with Bones is stark and upsetting, but also deeply humane and shot through with a hard-won wisdom. You will see forensics in a new light."--New Scientist

"Absorbing. . . . Still Life with Bones is multifaceted and elegiac: a memoir of a formative period in Hagerty's life as a social scientist, a tribute to the people she met along the way, and a warning against the belief that the worst crimes of authoritarianism have been relegated to the past."--The New York Times

"Chilling and vital. . . . sensitive and thought-provoking."--The Times

"Still Life with Bones is at once horrifying and impossibly hopeful."--Francisco Cantú, New York Times bestselling author of The Line Becomes a River

"Meticulous, luminous, utterly brilliant . . . The prose is as delicate and sharp as a rib cage, but the book's beating heart is Hagerty's wise and compassionate voice, a welcome guide through the atrocities she documents."--Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body

"Hagerty, a Chekhovian angel of science and poetry, has written an intimate, moving, mesmerizing account. The world is what it is, its global sorrows ever mounting, but this treasure of a book somehow makes it more bearable."--Francisco Goldman, author of Monkey Boy, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

"An electrifying read, full of profound personal insight and intellectual generosity . . . Bones tell chilling stories about our past, but they preserve, too, the potency of alternative outcomes. Hagerty unlocks this possibility with wisdom and compassion."--Cristina Rivera Garza, author of Liliana's Invincible Summer

"Touching and achingly honest--a most amazing account of training as a forensic anthropologist . . . When Hagerty talks about 'lives being violently made into bones, ' I defy you not to be moved."--Sue Black, author of All That Remains

"With poetic prose, Hagerty takes us to a liminal space between life and death, where forensic anthropologists descend into darkness in search of light. This remarkable book is a must-read."--Clea Koff, author of The Bone Woman

"Soulful but unsentimental. . . . A powerful meditation on life, death, and sorting out what can be saved of death in life."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Every beautifully written page of this extraordinary book affirms the individuality of each victim, and honors the living who serve them and their survivors."--BookPage (starred review)

"Searing . . . Intense and emotional, this is a vital rumination on political violence."--Publishers Weekly