The Missing

A Review of Daniel Heller-Roazen’s Absentees: on variously missing persons

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“There are many ways not to be someone,” Daniel Heller-Roazen warns at the beginning of Absentees: on variously missing persons, an examination of the law, cultural rituals, and literature around “nonpersons.” As Heller-Roazen states: “In every community, society, and assembly, nonpersons are lesser ones — where…