num_pages: 298
description: Cartoonist Sarah Glidden accompanies her two friendsreporters and founders of a journalism non-profitas they research potential stories on the effects of the Iraq War on the Middle East and specifically the wars refugees. Joining the trio is a childhood friend and former Marine whose past service in Iraq adds an unexpected and sometimes unwelcome viewpoint both to the people they come across and perhaps even themselves.As the crew works their way through Turkey Iraq and Syria Glidden observes the reporters as they ask civilians refugees and officials Who are you? Everyone has a story to tell: the Iranian blogger the United Nations refugee administrator a taxi driver the Iraqi refugee deported from the US the Iraqis seeking refuge in Syria and even the American Marine.Glidden (How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less) records all that she encounters with a sympathetic and searching eye. Painted in her trademark soft muted watercolors and written with a self-effacing humor Rolling Blackouts cements Gliddens place as one of todays most original nonfiction voices.
language: English
title: Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
publisher: Drawn and Quarterly