| SPECIAL AUTHOR EVENT | |
| SEPTEMBER 27, MONDAY, 7-9PM | |
| AUTHOR READING & SIGNING | |
| THE STONE FIELDS: AN EPITAPH FOR THE LIVING | |
| COURTNEY ANGELA BRKIC | |
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Join us at THE BOOK WORKS when we celebrate the appearance of internationally acclaimed writer COURTNEY ANGELA BRKIC when she reads for her latest book THE STONE FIELDS: AN EPITAPH FOR THE LIVING. |
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When she was twenty-three years old,
Courtney Angela Brkic
joined a UN-contracted forensic team in eastern Bosnia. Unlike
many aid workers, Brkic was drawn there by her family history, and
although fluent in the language, she was advised to avoid letting
local workers discover her ethnicity. Brkic helped set up a
morgue in Tuzla, assisting pathologists with autopsies and laying
out personal effects for photographing. Later, she helped excavate
graves at Srebenica, where many thousands had been indiscriminately
slaughtered. This was not the only excavating she was doing. As she describes the gruesome work of recovering remains and transcribing the memories of survivors, she also explores her family's history in Yugoslavia, telling of her grandmother's childhood in Herzegovina, early widowhood, and imprisonment during World War II for hiding her Jewish lover. The Stone Fields, deeply personal and wise, asks what it takes to prevent the violent loss of life, and what we are willing to risk in the process. "The Stone Fields is in part a recollection of her work on the graveyard project, in part the story of her father's mother, Andelka, before, during and after World War II. Both parts are suffused with a sense of death and loss and are especially concerned with the lives and fates of the women." — Jonathan Yardley of The Washington Post
Courtney Angela Brkic is the author of Stillness
(FSG, 2003), for which she won the prestigious Whiting Award.
She has worked for the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal in The
Hague and for Physicians for Human Rights. She lives in Ohio. |
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| Please note: If you are unable to attend this event, but would like a signed copy, please call THE BOOK WORKS at 858-755-3735 or email us and we'll be happy to reserve one for you. | |
