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Correspondents: A Novel
Correspondents: A Novel
Correspondents: A Novel
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Correspondents: A Novel

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“A sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq.” —Khaled Hosseini, #1 New York Times–bestselling author

The bright and driven daughter of a Boston-area Irish-Arab family, Rita Khoury charts herself an ambitious path through Harvard to one of the best newspapers in the country. She is posted in cosmopolitan Beirut and dates a handsome Palestinian would-be activist. But when she is assigned to cover the America-led invasion of Baghdad in 2003, she finds herself unprepared for the warzone. Her lifeline is her interpreter and fixer Nabil al-Jumaili, an equally restless young man whose dreams have been restricted by life in a deteriorating dictatorship, not to mention his own seemingly impossible desires. As the war tears Iraq apart, personal betrayal and the horrors of conflict force Rita and Nabil out of the country and into twisting, uncertain fates. What lies in wait will upend their lives forever, shattering their own notions of what they’re entitled to in a grossly unjust world.

Epic in scope, by turns satirical and heartbreaking, and speaking sharply to America’s current moment, Correspondents is a whirlwind story about displacement from one’s own roots, the violence America promotes both abroad and at home, and the resilience that allows families to remake themselves and endure even the most shocking upheavals.

“[An] emotionally resonant, time-hopping page turner . . . Explores immigration, the effects of U.S. intervention, and the long arc of war.” —Huffington Post

“An exploration of family, identity, and the price of war.” —Newsday

“A surprisingly moving war novel alert to global violence and politics but thriving on the character level.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Release dateMay 15, 2019
ISBN9780802147042
Correspondents: A Novel
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Tim Murphy

Tim Murphy is the author of Correspondents. His novel Christodora was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal. He has reported on health, politics, and culture for twenty years, for such publications as POZ Magazine, where he was an editor and staff writer, Out, the New York Times, and New York. He lives in Brooklyn.

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    4.5 stars. Sweeping in scope and intimate in execution.
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    This is a story about being human, being intelligent, being.frightened, being traumatized, being loved and giving love, and the fact that there are similarities and differences and strengths and frailties among all humans, in all nations, a d all families. A young Irish-Arab woman becomes a war correspondent, and together, she and her Arab translator, survive. Survive physically and emotionally, yet the strength and determination it takes is overwhelming! A well-written, very readable saga,vI strongly recommend this for the times we live in!

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