false 6566887 3 <strong>A dazzling, searing, and inventive memoir about becoming a father in the age of terror.</strong> In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynn’s daughter’s birth, his growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photographs, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in those photos. Haunted by a history of addiction, a relationship with his unsteady father, and a longing to connect with his mother who committed suicide, Flynn artfully interweaves in this memoir passages from his childhood, his relationships with women, and his growing obsession—a questioning of terror, torture, and the political crimes we can neither see nor understand in post-9/11 American life. The time bomb of the title becomes an unlikely metaphor and vehicle for exploring the fears and joys of becoming a father. Here is a memoir of profound self-discovery—of being lost and found, of painful family memories and losses, of the need to run from love, and of the ability to embrace it again. 6759835 18 1 2010 The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir total:7|5:2|4:3|3:2|2:0|1:0| 7 28 31 4 4 1 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 22:29:01 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 10:19:02 -0800 2009 the ticking is the bomb, is a memoir much in the same vein as its predecessor, another bullshit night in suck city, although much grander in scope and insight. whereas the earlier book was mainly concerned with the personal, in the ticking is the bomb flynn trains his poet...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 02 13:00:44 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 13:11:07 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 18:28:38 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 12:02:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 12 15:37:52 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 09:27:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 30 17:11:18 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 17:11:18 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 25 06:44:02 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 06:44:02 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 23 07:09:15 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 07:09:15 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 22 17:59:18 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 17:59:18 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 21 23:43:18 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 23:43:18 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 21 13:45:53 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 13:45:53 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 12 06:23:52 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 06:23:52 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 11 09:25:11 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 09:25:11 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 08 09:55:22 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 09:55:22 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 07 23:10:52 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 23:11:08 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 05 15:59:08 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 15:59:08 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 03 11:56:28 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 11:56:28 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 25 17:31:05 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 17:31:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 08 21:41:31 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 21:41:31 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 03 15:41:28 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 15:41:28 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 09:28:28 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 18:30:12 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6713644