Book Review of The Social Construction of Kidnapping

Description

A man in a jungle camp learns to read time by footsteps, not clocks, and to read danger by the way a guard clears his throat before speaking. In the account Tamayo Gomez builds from such scenes, captivity becomes a whole social world, a place where watching is constant, where kindness can feel like strategy, and where the smallest routine, a bowl of rice, a radio crackling at night, can hold a person together for one more day. The tension is not only whether the hostage will live, but what kind of self will be left when freedom returns, and what kind of country keeps moving while so many lives are paused.