Reddit reviews The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return

Oh man. Safe Area is great.

I also HIGHLY recommend Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood. I plowed through this in less than a week a few years back. Ms. Demick profiles blended ethnicity families during the war. Super interesting insight on how many people thought the whole thing was nonsense.

Safe Area is great but it's mostly about Bosniaks saying "fuck the Serbs" though Sacco does talk about the paramilitary Bosniaks who didn't exactly help the situation.

I got Misha Glenny's The Fall of Yugoslavia through the Overdrive app. I never finished. It was extremely detailed so if you can absorb that I'm jealous. Logavina Street was also on Overdrive through my library (Philadelphia.)

The Bosnia List was another amazing read. I cried. I want to meet Kenan so bad and buy him whiskey. I liked this as much as Logavina Street, it really presents the human aspect of that horrible, disgusting genocide.

I am obsessed with the Balkans and even did a presentation this past semester on the war. I do recommend starting with those books!

I guess Albanians do have a hard time, though to be fair, one tried to hire a hitman to kill my father (former elected official). The superintendent of my apartment building is from Kosovo, it seems like he tries to distance himself from the term "Albanian." He is a nice guy, I like him a lot.

>The one girl that went to high school with me was considered cool because she was Jewish and that seemed so hollywood

ha!! I don't even know what to say about that, funny. I was one of the only Jewish kids in my school, but I wasn't Hollywood cool!

My Bosnian friend is always so proud (rightfully so) that the Turks took in the expelled Jews from Spain, and let them settle in Bosnia, where apparently they were treated well for hundreds of years. You might be interested in this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Bosnia-List-Memoir-Return/dp/0143124579

Have you ever seen the BBC documentary "Death of Yugoslavia?" I honestly don't know how these "civilized" Western European countries sat by and watched a genocide happen 50 years after the Holocaust. "Never Again" my ass. It really sickens me. There is a scene where Eli Weisel demands that President Clinton do something about it at the opening of the US Holocaust Museum. But what do I know, I'm just an ignorant American.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Bosnia-List-Memoir-Return/dp/0143124579

This book talks about a Bosnian's perspective about Bosnia and the surrounding areas long after the war.