When Reality Collides: Triage and the Limits of Empathy Claudia Rankine's latest work, Triage, is not a book about medical triage, although that concept is woven into its fabric.
Rather, it's an exploration of how we respond to the world's atrocities when truth seems to be slipping through our fingers like sand.
The book begins with a friendship forged in the late 20th century on a college campus between the narrator and her friend, "the theorist.