In all honesty, it took me a long while to finish this book. Not because it was boring or too hard to read (though it was challenging to translate at times), but because it made me cry within the first 10 pages. I knew right then it was more than I could chew, so I had to read it in small portions. 'Important' feels like too small of a word to describe how much I want everyone to read this. I was thrust into a world I knew almost nothing about, and even though I wish it could have stayed that way, I can’t decide what would be worse: knowing or not knowing. I annotated the everloving hell out of this book. I know people who have lived through the hell mentioned, and it happened to me too. It also made me realize how much my own thinking has been compromised by the things described. I will keep talking about this book. I’ll try to openly discuss it with others, even though I’m usually too nervous to debate. This topic is just too important to stay silent."