The book also plays with form to amplify its themes. Redacted passages serve not only as stylistic flourishes but as narrational actors—what is blacked out becomes as telling as what is revealed. Photographs are intermittently captioned with contradictory dates; oral histories are annotated by a skeptical archivist; maps fold in on themselves. These formal choices convert the reader into an investigator, a complicit archivist, and finally a judge—forcing moral judgment through engagement rather than sermon.