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Correspondents
A Novel
Author: Tim Murphy
Narrator: Necar Zadegan, Assaf Cohen
Unabridged: 15 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 05/28/2019
Category: Fiction - Literary
Synopsis
Spanning the breadth of the twentieth century and into the post-9/11 wars and their legacy, Correspondents is a powerful novel that centers on Rita Khoury, an Irish-Lebanese woman whose life and family history mirrors the story of America. Both sides of Rita's family came to the United States in the golden years of immigration, and in her home north of Boston Rita grows into a stubborn and relentlessly bright young woman. She studies Arabic at her university and moves to cosmopolitan Beirut to work as a journalist and is then posted to Iraq after the American invasion in 2003. In Baghdad, her safety depends on her talented interpreter, Nabil al-Jumaili, an equally driven young man from a middle-class Baghdad family who is hiding a secret about his sexuality. As Nabil's identity threatens to put him in jeopardy and Rita's position becomes more precarious as the war intensifies, their worlds start to unravel, forcing them out of the country and into an uncertain future.Epic in scope, by turns funny and poignant, and ranging from New England to the Middle East, Correspondents is a powerful story about the legacy of immigration, the present-day world of refugeehood, the violence that America causes both abroad and at home, and the power of the individual and the family to bring good into a world that is often brutal.