Friday was the bomb
Subtitle: five years in the Middle East
By: Nathan Deuel
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Dzanc Books/Disquiet
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781938604904
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Periodical editors; Biography; History
Description: "In 2008, Nathan Deuel, a former editor at Rolling Stone and the Village Voice, and his wife, a National Public Radio foreign correspondent, moved to the deeply Islamic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to see for themselves what was happening in the Middle East. There they had a daughter, and later, while his wife filed reports from Baghdad and Syria, car bombs erupted and one night a firefight raged outside the family's apartment in Beirut. Their marriage strained, and they struggled with the decision to stay or go home. At once a meditation on fatherhood, an unusual memoir of a war correspondent's spouse, and a first-hand account from the front lines of the most historic events of recent days-- the Arab Spring, the end of the Iraq war, and the unrest in Syria-- Friday Was the Bomb is a searing collection of timely and absorbing essays"--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: 1. Holiday in Baghdad ; Behind an iron door ; Without chief or tribe ; The chest of the horse; title: 2. Things my father will never do again ; A cause for celebration ; My wife's bodyguard ; The cannibal birds of Burgazada; title: 3. Anthony is dead ; When I finally saw blood ; People like ; Bend, don't break; title: 4. Homeland in my homeland ; Friday was the bomb ; Flood-tide below me ; The only way out; title: 5. Cavities ; In the country ; Pack it like a pop star.