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Listening to Each Other’s Deep Story

by Reading in Action | Jun 18, 2017 | Book reviews, Reading in Action, USA

Book review by Cynthia Burrell While neighbors, friends, and family members have turned away from one another in disgust or distrust in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, Arlie Russell Hochschild’s book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on...

What Happens When Politics Breaks Down

by Ethan Casey | Jan 31, 2017 | Ethan Casey, Home Free, US, USA

First of all, note that there is no question mark in my title. What happens when politics breaks down is what all of us in the United States are currently living through, in real time. In July 1997 I was an eyewitness to an actual, unambiguous coup d’etat in...

Home Free: An American Road trip

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"Ethan Casey listened hard and well in his books on Haiti and Pakistan. Now he's listening to America." - Paul Rogat Loeb

Alive and Well in Pakistan: A Human Journey in a Dangerous Time

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"Compulsory reading for anyone visiting Pakistan" - Harvard International Review

"The author's real journey is a search for common humanity." - The Daily Telegraph

Bearing the Bruise: A Life Graced by Haiti

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"A heartfelt account" - Paul Farmer

Live at the Forbidden City

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"A vivid account of China's musical past" - Songlines