PositiveAmericas QuarterlyIn The Shining Path, Starn and La Serna give readers an honest assessment of both sides of the conflict, including the state’s often shameful approach to ending it ... Reflecting the authors’ backgrounds in anthropology and history, the book’s intimate human stories are contextualized by both Peruvian and world history ... its highlights are found in its focus on the conflict’s heroes, not its villains ... At a time of intensifying political tribalism and historical revisionism across the Americas, Starn and La Serna aim to \'chronicle rather than to pass judgment, without imagining it is ever possible to do one without the other.\' Ultimately, their earnest, agenda-free account of the Shining Path is a welcome addition to the canon of Latin American history and to the conversation on Peru’s future.
