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Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream | Dubravka Ugresic

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From Croatia's finest living writer comes a lament for her anguished homeland and a critique of American culture. In the form of a fictional "dictionary", Ugresic writes about our culture through the eyes of one whose country is being destroyed, forcing us to look at Balkan barbarism through our veil of Western obsessions.

Suet624

Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream | Dubravka Ugresic

This fairly short book of essays about the author‘s time living during a war in Croatia and then living in Amsterdam and the United States is taking me a good deal of time to get through. Her experiences, reflections, and sentences require that I stop and take in some very sad truths about how those of us lucky enough to feel “safe” view the brutality of occupation/war from such an emotional distance. Written in 1993, it‘s all so accurate today.

vivastory Nadezhdda Mandelstam's memoir “Hope Against Hope“ is one of my favorite nonfiction books of all time. 3mo

Tamra 😕 sometimes fiction can evoke that emotional connection. 3mo

batsy I greatly enjoyed her essays in this one and need to read more by her

Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia

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Suet624

Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream | Dubravka Ugresic

This is what my #Bookspin read will be for January. It‘s been on my shelf for years. It sounds like a bit of a dark read but I‘m ready for it.

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BarbaraBB Sounds interesting. I always meant to read her too. 4mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4mo

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