PositiveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksWhat You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance documents how we see and engage with the world through one woman’s consciousness. [Forché\'s] experiences led her to the conclusion that only by bearing witness and remembering can we be fully participatory citizens ... The act of bearing witness alone is not enough, but tracing Forché’s journey in El Salvador allows us to reexamine how we interpret, process, and remember ... We still face questions of how this witnessing, and memory created through witness, can be channeled in a collective way, not only to denounce, account for, and resist, but also to reimagine something better.
