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Nick Flynn: book signing and discussion

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Presented by Brazos Bookstore at Brazos Bookstore

January 18, 2010

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Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Nick Flynn, who signs and discusses his book, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir.

In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynn’s daughter’s birth, his growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photographs, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in those photos. Haunted by a history of addiction, a relationship with his unsteady father, and a longing to connect with his mother who committed suicide, Flynn artfully interweaves in this memoir passages from his childhood, his relationships with women, and his growing obsession—a questioning of terror, torture, and the political crimes we can neither see nor understand in post-9/11 American life.

The time bomb of the title becomes an unlikely metaphor and vehicle for exploring the fears and joys of becoming a father. Here is a memoir of profound self-discovery—of being lost and found, of painful family memories and losses, of the need to run from love, and of the ability to embrace it again.

Nick Flynn is the award-winning author of Some Ether, Blind Huber, The Ticking is the Bomb and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. He teaches at the University of Houston. Please join us in welcoming the wonderful multi-genre talent Nick Flynn back to Brazos Bookstore for a reading and signing.



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      2421 Bissonnet Houston, TX 77005

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