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Following on from the first two books in his 'Genesis Trilogy',
Lawrence Swaim tells the amazing stories of people who broke the
trauma bond, and created new lives for themselves. Including, among
others: Norman Finkelstein (whose parents were both Holocaust
survivors) who broke free from the inter-generational trauma in his
family system by exposing extensive corruption in his
community--and in American society--and by working for social
justice in the Middle East; Eric Lomax, a former British soldier in
the far east, who broke free from his haunting traumatic memories
by meeting and reconciling with the Japanese man who had tortured
him fifty years before, with the help of his brave and insightful
wife; Gerry Adams who, together with his IRA and Sinn Fein
comrades, broke free of the trauma of Northern Ireland's civil war,
finally redeeming himself by questioning some of his own
assumptions and then dedicating himself to achieving peace in the
Good Friday (Peace) Agreement of 1998. This is a definitive book
about personal struggle against traumatic memory, but also about
how trauma bonding operates in society. It is the author's belief
that unresolved feelings of psychological trauma are the wheelhouse
of systemic evil, whether of the dictator, the demagogue or the
criminal psychopath. It is by manipulating shared traumatic
memories that tyrants control people, and get them to do terrible
things they would never otherwise do.
Maitland Sutterfield is a San Francisco journalist who has just
been through an exhausting divorce. He takes a writer's holiday,
accepting an assignment as a reporter in Guatemala. In full flight
from his personal demons, Sutterfield seeks peace in a beautiful
land unlike his own - but this is Guatemala of the 1980s, and there
is a brutal civil war underway. Instead of peace, Sutterfield finds
the perils of love in a time of revolution, not to mention the
moral quandaries of a country that is descending into madness.
Maitland's main contact in Guatemala is Sofia Mendez, who takes him
to a small Catholic mission in the highlands run by a
Spanish-trained Jesuit priest. Maitland volunteers at the mission,
convinced that the priest's ministry is a vivid example of the
Liberation Theology movement about which he hopes to write the
definitive book-length analysis. But complications abound when
Sofia becomes Maitland's lover, before either he or Sofia have a
chance to discuss the real nature of her previous vocation.
Maitland is oppressively aware of the subtle but inevitable
exploitation of third-world sources by first-world media, but the
tables are turned as he finds himself trapped in a dangerous
dilemma in which Sofia's needs dictate both their futures.
In the Land of Dreams is the story of a man who believes he is
being stalked by the ghost of an ancestor, who, for reasons
unknown, has returned to lower Manhattan, where he owned a tavern
in the 1680s. Eventually the ghostly stalker is taken into the
city-sponsored residential program in which our narrator lives, and
reveals himself to be his troubled ancestor. He tells a story of
violent and irrevocable events that caused a curse to be placed on
their family. Both men are looking for redemption, the ancestor
through confessing his role in the long-ago troubles and the
narrator by finding the right way to interpret these shocking
events...
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