After the Fall: Srebrenica Survivors in St. Louis
Advance Praise for After the Fall --"Here is extraordinary documentary work, done with great thoughtfulness and with a moral energy that ought give all of us plenty to consider -- a book has become a collective witness, on the record, of humanity as it struggles against terrible odds to endure."Robert Coles, M.D., child psychiatrist, professor of social ethics at Harvard University, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis series.__________"Srebrenica is no longer an exotic word. It is a metaphor for man's inhumanity to man. Tom Maday's photographs and the victims' words, through Patrick McCarthy's probings, offer us a searing portrait of madness --as well as heroism."Studs Terkel, oral historian, interviewer, and author of The Good War, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize__________"After the Fall succeeds in bringing Srebrenica, one of the most chilling examples of genocide in Europe since the end of World War II, down to the human level. This is a primary source that will keep its relevance for years to come and will be a classic in its oral history approach."Norman Cigar, author of Genocide in Bosnia: the Policy of "Ethnic Cleansing"__________"The layers of truth that reside in McCarthy and Maday's book of words and images give it a special place amongst survivors' accounts of genocide. Americans will grow from hearing this nightmarish story of a family come to its heartland by way of epic nationalistic crimes and international complicity. No less impressive is the strength and beauty it reveals about how survivor families adapt and find meaning in a new country. The book shows that the struggle over the future of Bosnia and its people is a struggle over memory, which is what's at stake whenever these stories are told, including in its American diaspora in St. Louis."Stevan Weine M.D., author of When History is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina