FRIDAY WAS THE BOMB: A Collection of Essays
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2014-01-01
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MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa
Abstract
In 2008, 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, firefights
erupted and car bombs went off right 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.
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Memoir, Essays, War, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Arab Spring