The Ticking Is the Bomb
A Memoir
4 March 2011
Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.
Description
"A beautiful, intelligent book that renders pain both ordinary and extraordinary into art."—Susanna Sonnenberg, San Francisco Chronicle
Reviews
"What does it mean that America tortures? . . . This is the question that haunts Nick Flynn's devastating new book . . . the best passages here are simply astonishing. Flynn writes with great tenderness about the terrors and joys of fatherhood . . . a disquieting masterpiece." — Steve Almond, Los Angeles Times
"[Flynn's] search for the meaning of fatherhood in the era of terror is remarkable not only for the nimbleness with which he pulls these threads together—observations of former prisoners are woven with meditations on loss—but also for its empathy and unshrinking honesty." — Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair
"[Flynn's] efforts to reconcile the tattered pieces of his life—his determination to find love and redemption in a world gone mad—feel gutsy, hard won, and utterly true." — Time Out New York