The Ticking is the Bomb - A memoir - Grand Format

In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynn's daughter is born, his growing outrage and obsession with torture - exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photos - leads him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in the photographs. Haunted by a history of addiction, a relationship with an unsteady father and a longing to connect with his mother who committed suicide, Flynn's memoir artfully interweaves passages from his childhood, his relationships with women and his questioning of terror, torture and political crimes - unimaginable horrors, but part of humanity all the same.
The time bomb of the title becomes a vehicle for exploring the fears and joys of becoming a father. Here is a dazzling, inventive memoir of profound self-discovery - of being lost and found, of painful family memories and losses, and of the compulsion to run from love, but finding the ability to embrace it.