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A debut novel from the award-winning journalist about the people in a San Francisco homeless shelter, and those who try to help—or prey on them."J. Malcolm Garcia has channeled the empathetic ear of Studs Terkel and the investigative skills of the best literary journalists...These stories will remain in the heart and mind’s eye forever." —Beth Taylor, author of The Plain Language of Love and Loss"An exceptionally powerful voice on behalf of th...

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Timely literary reporting from Afghanistan by one of our most important nonfiction writers includes insightful new writing since the US pull-out in 2021. "J. Malcolm Garcia has channeled the empathetic ear of Studs Terkel and the investigative skills of the best literary journalists ... These stories will remain in the heart and mind's eye forever." -Beth Taylor, author of The Plain Language of Love and LossReporting from Kabul and Kandahar be...

Men and women fleeing the violence of Honduras. Mexican reporters covering gang conflict in Juarez. Families living off the refuse of a landfill. Informed by grief and anger and told in varied and distinctive voices, A Different Kind of War: Uneasy Encounters in Mexico and Central America, offers a sensitive exploration of men and women connected by courage, resilience, and the need for human connection in the face of uncommon adversity.

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They bear labels instead of names - noncombatant, unintended victim, collateral damage. Theirs are the blurred faces and forms seen in news footage shot from a moving vehicle. They have stories to tell to anyone who will pause long enough to hear them. In What Wars Leave Behind, J. Malcolm Garcia reveals the people and pain behind the statistics.

Shortly after September 11, J. Malcolm Garcia--a self-described middle-aged, middle-of-the-road midwesterner--arrived in Afghanistan. A former social worker, he had only recently become a reporter and had never covered a war. As for Afghanistan, he barely knew where it was. But during the next seven years of travel between Kansas City and a post-Taliban Afghanistan, Garcia found an emotional and professional center--one that, in spite of other...