Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. People like to see themselves as the

hero in their own story. That's just a natural thing, but it can lead to distortions in reality.

This is something that journalist Joe Sacco wanted to explore in his latest book, The Once and Future

Riot. In it, he examines a small moment of violence in 2013 India that led to a string of riots

and violence between Hindus and Muslims.

And while this book is about India in 2013, I think the lessons he gleaned from his reporting

could be applied to any conflict, including the ones you've got here in the U.S.

My conversation with Joe Sacco after the break.

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In 2013, two young men, they were cousins, killed a man.

This was in a rural part of Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India.

The cousins were Hindu.

The other man was Muslim.

What followed was a series of

alternating violence in the region between Hindus and Muslims. Joe Sacco's new book, The Once

and Future Riot, is about that violence, but it's less about the ins and outs of what happened

and more about the stories people tell themselves about what happened.

Because ultimately, I think everything's about story. It's how you categorize your enemy.

You want to diminish any role you might have had in the violence and you want to

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