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    Dark at the Crossing
    Dark at the Crossing
    Dark at the Crossing
    Audiobook7 hours

    Dark at the Crossing

    Written by Elliot Ackerman

    Narrated by Vikas Adam

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and Amir's wife, Daphne, a sophisticated beauty haunted by grief. As it becomes clear that Daphne is also desperate to return to Syria, Haris's choices become ever more wrenching: Whose side is he really on? Is he a true radical or simply an idealist? And will he be able to bring meaning to a life of increasing frustration and helplessness? Told with compassion and a deft hand, Dark at the Crossing is an exploration of loss, of second chances, and of why we choose to believe-a trenchantly observed novel of raw urgency and power.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJan 24, 2017
    ISBN9781681682938
    Dark at the Crossing
    Author

    Elliot Ackerman

    Elliot Ackerman served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and is the recipient of the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. A former White House Fellow, his essays and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and Ecotone, among others. He currently lives in Istanbul where he writes on the Syrian Civil War. Green on Blue is his first novel.

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    • 4/5
      Very good book that details the horrors that are Aleppo and why people are compelled to either get there or leave the place. Relevant, horrifying, and sad, but still a book about the passions that drive us and what we are willing to risk for that passion. Good read.
    • 3/5
      I think that in the places in this novel that the author was depicting the conflicts and ambiguities of war, it was incredibly effective; in the places where the author was depicting relationships between specific people, it fell short.
    • 4/5
      Haris Abadi is an Iraqi by birth, American by gratitude. As an interpreter, his duty is blurred by emotion which leads to regret. Perhaps to set things right, he chooses to return to the Middle East and become a fighter for the Free Syrian Army. He meets Daphne and Amir who also struggle with events in their past and together they work to achieve their desires and cross the border back into Syria but the war is far reaching and filled with deception, revenge and betrayal. There is no place for naivete and the gullible. One needs to know where they're convictions lie, who the enemy is, what they are fighting and why. This story had an unexpected though not fulfilling conclusion and serves to reiterate just how ongoing and complicated this war can be.
    • 4/5
      Dark at the reading, too. The author's military background in Afghanistan (setting of his debut novel Green on Blue), Iraq, and Syria wouldn't be enough to make this such a riveting and shame-making novel for every American - he's also a master at plot and dialogue. In this story, Haris, who served the US Army in Iraq as an interpreter, receives American citizenship as a reward (won't happen now - thanks, Trump) and settles with his sister in Michigan, working at a menial job while she attends college. Once his sister is engaged to an Emerati - and Ackerman is very clear on who's got all the luck out of all the Mideast countries - the ones with oil wealth and American backing - his restlessness brings him to Syria to join the Free Army in the fight against Al-Assad and Daesh. What could go wrong for Haris? Just about everything. What could go right for the reader? Just about everything in this fine novel of circumstances and of miserable choices, complete with an unexpectedly devastating ending. Painful and necessary.