Even Darkness Sings

Thomas Cook, a novelist, and his wife and daughter loved to travel to dark places in the world. Over the years, Cook visited some of the darkest places on the planet, places where war killed many, places where groups of people were put to death, places where freedoms were taken away, places where great destruction took places. Some of the places Cook visited include Auschwitz, Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, the suicide forest in Japan, Saigon, Londonderry, Hiroshima, and Ground Zero in NYC.

It sounds like this would be a book that would be deeply sad, but I was surprised to find that Cook was able to find goodness in the dark places, even redemption sometimes, and that is a hopeful thing. It's the ways that Cook finds the good even in the worst of the worst that this book can be helpful, I think.