FRAYED FAMILY BONDS & REDEFINING HUMANITY – FICTION & NONFICTION

In Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars, Peter Godwin longs for his childhood in Zimbabwe, where he was born and where his mother, now dying, was a doctor. He reflects on his time as a war journalist and life in New York with his English wife and transatlantic children, and comes to terms with everything his family was – and wasn’t. In The Emergency: A Novel, George Packer writes a tale about an empire that has collapsed from boredom and loss of faith in itself. Urban Burghers and rural Yeomen embrace radical new ideas of humanity, and as the conflict reaches a crisis point, a chief surgeon and his family live out the question of what common human bonds remain when a society falls apart.

Buy Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars – Godwin

Buy The Emergency: A Novel – Packer