Powerful ... Absorbing and lucid ... [Gilliland] brilliantly conveys the grim and tangled history of Argentina’s last five decades through the people who experienced it up close.
Deeply reported ... Gilliland focuses on the ordeal of a single shattered family, widens her lens to include other cases, and embeds her tale in a crisp account of recent Argentinian history ... Argentina’s lessons for the current moment are multiple: When tyrants threaten, more people and institutions may cower than resist; the loss of checks on state violence can be catastrophic; and no one knows who the next victim will be.
