Status Updates From Salvador

Really not used to this type of writing but I can confidently say it’s improving my reading comprehension
Slay Joan

If any word can describe Didion’s prose in this essay, it’s distant. In many ways, the daily violence and terror of El Salvador’s civil war is unimaginable for Americans. Didion articulates this thoroughly, making piles of corpses and disappearances monotonous. The reader feels far away from the violence of the place, even when steeped within it.