Migliori Libri di Sarah Glidden

si chiede Sarah Glidden dopo aver ascoltato la straziante testimonianza di Salam, confinato in un campo profughi iracheno. A raccogliere la storia di quest’uomo segnato dal destino, ci sono due amici dall’autrice: Sarah Stuteville e Alex Stonehill, due giovani giornalisti che lei ha deciso di seguire nel loro viaggio attraverso le zone più calde del Medio Oriente. Dalla Turchia dei rifugiati iraniani all’Iraq del post-Saddam, per poi finire nella Siria del regime di Assad, il gruppo si muove insieme a un osservatore molto particolare: Dan, un ex marine che pochi anni prima ha combattuto alle porte di Baghdad. Ognuno di loro si è lasciato alle spalle gli Usa convinto di sapere cosa avrebbe trovato e con una chiara idea di quali fossero le responsabilità (o i meriti) del proprio Paese nei confronti di quelle popolazioni. Mai e poi mai si sarebbero aspettati di venire a contatto con l’umanità di quelle terre, così lontane dal sensazionalismo con cui pacifisti e guerrafondai le raccontano. Con i suoi acquerelli, Sarah Glidden restituisce umanità alle vittime della guerra, rendendole incredibilmente vicine a noi. Grazie alla sua risoluta delicatezza, Voci dal buio tocca il nervo scoperto dell’attualità, restituendo al lettore esperienze tanto reali quanto intense.

Sarah Glidden is a progressive Jewish American twenty-some- thing who is both vocal and critical of Israeli politics in the Holy Land. When a debate with her mother prods her to sign up for a Birthright Israel tour, Glidden expects to find objective facts to support her strong opinions. During her two weeks in Israel, Glidden takes advantage of the opportunity to ask the people she meets about the fraught and complex issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but their answers only lead her to question her own take on the conflict. Simple linework and gorgeous watercolors spotlight Israel’s countryside, urban landscapes, and religious landmarks. With straightforward sincerity, lovingly observed anecdotes, and a generous dose of self-deprecating humor, How to Understand Is-rael in 60 Days or Less is accessible while retaining Glidden’s distinctive perspective. Over the course of this touching memoir, Glidden comes to terms with the idea that there are no easy answers to the world’s problems, and that is okay. Glidden’s debut book, How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less landed on several best of the year lists, including Entertainment Weekly; earned a YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens distinction; and won an Ignatz Award. Her second book, Rolling Blackouts, which documents her experience shadowing journalists in Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, will also come out this fall from Drawn and Quarterly

Cartoonist Sarah Glidden follows up her acclaimed debut, How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, with Rolling Black- outs, which details her two-month long journey through Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. Glidden accompanies her two friends reporters and founders of the journalistic non-profit the Seattle Globalist as they research stories on the Iraq War s effect on the Middle East and, specifically, the war s refugees. Joining them is a former Marine and childhood friend of one of the journalists whose deployment to Iraq in 2007 adds an unexpected and sometimes unwelcome viewpoint, both to the people they come across and perhaps even themselves. The crew works their way through the region with the goal of asking civilians, refugees, and officials: who are you? Everyone has a story to tell: the Iranian blogger, the United Nations Refugee administrator, a taxi driver, the Iraqi refugee deported from the US, the Iraqis seeking refuge in Syria, and even the American Marine. The journalists struggle equally with how to tell these stories and with how to market them into articles people will want to read. Glidden records all that she encounters with a sympathetic and searching eye What is journalism? What is its purpose? What is honesty? Painted in her trademark soft muted watercolours and written with a self-effacing humour Rolling Blackouts cements Glidden’s place as one of comics’ most original non-fiction voices