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Publisher Comments:
In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynn's daughter's birth, his growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photographs, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in those photos.
Haunted by a history of addiction, a relationship with his unsteady father, and a longing to connect with his mother who committed suicide, Flynn artfully interweaves in this memoir passages from his childhood, his relationships with women, and his growing obsession -- a questioning of terror, torture, and the political crimes we can neither see nor understand in post-9/11 American life. The time bomb of the title becomes an unlikely metaphor and vehicle for exploring the fears and joys of becoming a father.
Here is a memoir of profound self-discovery -- of being lost and found, of painful family memories and losses, of the need to run from love, and of the ability to embrace it again.
Reviews:
"A striking collection of memories that will mystify, enlighten, trouble and amaze." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Another Nick Flynn book means another marvel. The Ticking Is the Bomb is bold and brave and the prose will blow you away, as well his insights on love and being. Behold." Anthony Swafford, author of Jarhead
"A gleaming, brutal, beautiful book. As I read it, I kept thinking of all the people I wanted to give it to." Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
"Reading this book is like experiencing a very skilled surgeon performing an operation on his own insecurities and new found fragile maturity. The written operation may be painful but watching the scars heal on the page is a true delight." John Waters, director and author
Author Bio:
Nick Flynn is the award-winning author of Some Ether, Blind Huber, and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. He teaches at the University of Houston.
