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Meet Elliot Ackerman (“Dark at the Crossing”) and Omar El Akkad (“American War”)
| Location | Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC. |
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| Date | Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
| Duration | 1 hours |
| Link | https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/elliot-ackerman-dark-crossing-omar-el-akkad-american-war |
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| Repeats? | No |
| Details | Ackerman served multiple tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, experiences that lent urgency and power to his debut novel, Green on Blue. His second novel, a National Book Award finalist, now in paperback, draws on his years of reporting about the Syrian civil war. The story focuses on Haris Abadi, an Iraqi who became an American citizen after serving as an interpreter for American troops in his home country. Dissatisfied with his new life and looking for purpose, he decides to join the fight against the al-Assad regime. The border between Turkey and Syria is closed, and as Haris searches for a way to cross, he relives the brutal interrogations he participated in with the Americans and meets a Syrian refugee determined to return to Aleppo to find the daughter she’s sure has survived. El Akkad’s powerful debut novel, just released in paperback, opens in the U.S. of 2074, a nation once again at war with itself. Against the backdrop of a government in crisis, a crippling shortage of fuels, and a plague that has half the country in quarantine, El Akkad tells the life story of Sarat. Sent to a refugee camp at age six, she’s trained as a guerilla fighter by agents of the Middle Eastern Bouazizi Empire. She carries out assassinations, is captured, tortured, and survives to continue the struggle. El Akkad, a Cairo-born Canadian journalist, has taken the stuff of recent events—suicide bombers, drone strikes, Guantánamo, hate crimes—and turned it into a chilling dystopian fable. This event is free to attend with no reservation required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis. |
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