The Fruit of All My Grief, J. Malcolm Garcia
The Fruit of All My Grief, J. Malcolm Garcia
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The Fruit of All My Grief
Lives in the Shadows of the American Dream

Author: J. Malcolm Garcia

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Unabridged: 7 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2019


Synopsis

Real-life stories of Americans living on the edge of survival, outside the bright lights of the media.

Award-winning journalist J. Malcolm Garcia's essays highlight the struggle, survival, and endurance of average people affected by the injustices of America's remorseless mammoth institutions and public indifference. They include families and small businesses still recovering from the BP Oil Spill; the man sentenced to life in prison for transporting drugs to save his son's life; the widows of soldiers who died, not in war, but from toxic fumes they were exposed to at their bases overseas; and the Iraqi interpreter who was promised American asylum, only to arrive and be forced to live in poverty. The soaring narratives told in The Fruit of All My Grief let us feel the fears, hopes, and outrage of those living in the shadows of the "American Dream."

About J. Malcolm Garcia

J. Malcolm Garcia is the author of The Khaarijee: A Chronicle of Friendship and War in Kabul; What Wars Leave Behind: The Faceless and Forgotten; Without a Country: The Untold Story of America's Deported Veterans; and Riding through Katrina with the Red Baron's Ghost: A Memoir of Friendship, Family, and a Life Writing Stories. Garcia is a recipient of the Studs Terkel Prize for writing about the working classes and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism. His work has been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Best American Essays.


Reviews

Goodreads review by chantel

You know it's funny.. I read this book in May 2022 and I still can't find the right words to describe this book... all these months later. However, I'm going to take a crack at it now in December. J. Malcolm Garcia is a empathetic journalist capturing the struggles of a variety of people trying to l......more

J. Malcolm Garcia is an enterprising, eminently compassionate journalist clearly worthy of special distinction. Though he would not appear to have a Wiki, Garcia has been awarded the Studs Terkel Prize for writing about the working class, a tidbit from the bio that tells you a lot about his sensibil......more

Goodreads review by jonas

“Sabrina’s Kindergarten graduation tonight... she wishes her dad was here... I gotta hold back the tears... Big fat ice cream comes after the ceremony” (209). not only does this novel stretch the empathy out of me, this novel opens a whole new perspective to tragedies that ruin lives in America. fro......more