I just finished reading What Is the What by Dave Eggers, published as a novel, but a true story. I started reading it then didn’t want to continue. I didn’t want to know in real words what happens in the world–what happened to the Lost Boys of the Sudan. I didn’t want to create in my mind the horrors these children endured, or weren’t able to survive. It’s unbelievable what we allow to happen. Here is, I think, one of the quotes of the book: “…every international body that monitors or provides for the displaced, customarily place their refugees in the least desirable regions on earth. There we become utterly dependent—unable to grow our own food, to tend our own livestock, to live in any sustainable way. I do not judge…, but I do pose the question.” In this man’s story, there are people trying so hard to intervene in a way that matters. But it is clear that good intentions are not enough and taking action is complicated.