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Ghosts: Managua 1986 (Kindle Single)

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Managua is a haunted city for Alex Grossmeyer, a New York journalist there to report on the revolution in 1986. As she wanders the ruined streets during the Contra War, passes the shattered silhouettes of derelict apartment blocks, and watches cows graze on the empty lots where houses once stood, she remembers her refugee mother’s stories about Germany: ‘a wheelbarrow of cash she saw during the years of Germany’s inflation, the non-Jewish family who took her in towards the end of the war, dust raining down during the bombing of Frankfurt.’ By night Alex finds herself in the air-conditioned bar at the Intercontinental -- one of the few undamaged hotels in the city – drinking alone while with others, a rookie among war correspondents who are thicker skinned. Then Daniel Rappaport, an American supporter of the Sandinistas, encourages her to come with him to the mountains, into the heart of the region where there are frequent Contra attacks. There, in an isolated community where some of the children have gone missing, Alex finds herself confronting the violence she has always imagined was at the periphery and struggling with her mother’s legacy during a different war.

Language: English

Pages: 27

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: November 02, 2016

Ghosts: Managua 1986 (Kindle Single)

0/5 ( ratings)

Managua is a haunted city for Alex Grossmeyer, a New York journalist there to report on the revolution in 1986. As she wanders the ruined streets during the Contra War, passes the shattered silhouettes of derelict apartment blocks, and watches cows graze on the empty lots where houses once stood, she remembers her refugee mother’s stories about Germany: ‘a wheelbarrow of cash she saw during the years of Germany’s inflation, the non-Jewish family who took her in towards the end of the war, dust raining down during the bombing of Frankfurt.’ By night Alex finds herself in the air-conditioned bar at the Intercontinental -- one of the few undamaged hotels in the city – drinking alone while with others, a rookie among war correspondents who are thicker skinned. Then Daniel Rappaport, an American supporter of the Sandinistas, encourages her to come with him to the mountains, into the heart of the region where there are frequent Contra attacks. There, in an isolated community where some of the children have gone missing, Alex finds herself confronting the violence she has always imagined was at the periphery and struggling with her mother’s legacy during a different war.

Language: English

Pages: 27

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: November 02, 2016

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