In Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars, Peter Godwin longs for his childhood in Zimbabwe, where he was born and where his mother, now dying, was a doctor. He reflects on his time as a war journalist and life in New York with his English wife and transatlantic children, and comes to terms with everything his family was – and wasn’t. In The Emergency: A Novel, George Packer writes a tale about an empire that has collapsed from boredom and loss of faith in itself. Urban Burghers and rural Yeomen embrace radical new ideas of humanity, and as the conflict reaches a crisis point, a chief surgeon and his family live out the question of what common human bonds remain when a society falls apart. Moderated by novelist John Burnham Schwartz.
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PETER GODWIN was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He is the author of six nonfiction books, including Mukiwa, which received the George Orwell Prize and the Esquire-Apple-Waterstones Award, and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, which won the Borders Original Voices Award. His book The Fear was selected by The New Yorker as a best book of the year. He has taught writing at Wesleyan and Columbia and served as president of the PEN American Center. He is an Orwell fellow and a Guggenheim fellow.
