Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

I remember reading Demick's Nothing to Envy. I took it on vacation with me to the lake when we went with Matt's family, and I remember sitting at a picnic table and ignoring everything going on around me as I devoured it.

Eat the Buddha was not a book I wanted to sit and devour (even if we pretended I have the time and mental energy these days). I easily lost track of who some of the people were, because it jumped around in time and from character to character. There was little that was listed as happening after 2014, and for a book that was published in 2020, it felt like there should be more of the modern history. It felt incomplete?

The information about the Chinese Communist Party and the propaganda, fear and destruction of their ways of life, and Tibetans feeling as though they're living in a war zone whose whims can change as government leadership does, that was all excellent. I do not ever need more information about people setting themselves on fire as a form of protest.