They bear labels instead of names--noncombatant, unintended victim,
collateral damage. Theirs are the blurred faces and forms seen in
news footage shot from a moving vehicle. And when soldiers, media,
and profiteers move on to the next conflict, they stay behind to
cope amid the wreckage. They have stories to tell to anyone who
will pause long enough to hear them.
In "What Wars Leave Behind"," " J. Malcolm Garcia reveals the
people and pain behind the statistics. He writes about impoverished
families scraping by in Cairo's city of the dead, ordinary
Syrianspretending all is well as shells explode around them, and
others caught in conflicts that rage long after the cameramen have
packed up and gone away.
Garcia describes his travels in some of the world's hotspots in
Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In a series of personal
travel essays that read like short stories, he exposes the endless
messiness of war and the failings of good intentions, and he traces
their impact on the lives of natives in Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Egypt, Kosovo, Chad, and Syria. He discovers amazing resilience
among people who must struggle just to survive each day.
Garcia gives readers the sort of gritty detail learned from
immersing himself in other cultures. He eats the food, drinks the
tea, and endures the oppressive heat. These are the stories of how
a middle-class guy from the Midwest with a social work degree
learned to experience and embrace the cultures of Third World
countries in conflict--and lived to tell the tale.
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