02949cam a2200325 4500 521702535 TxAuBib 20210905120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781609531447 1609531442 B079P62YF2 Amazon 9267e322-508d-4dca-b494-c82a4901c41b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3837152 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Yarbrough Steve. The Unmade World [Libby] : A Novel. Unbridled Books, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1786kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1786kB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:Set against a backdrop of the current political and cultural upheaval in the US and Eastern Europe, <i>The Unmade World</i> is a thoughtful, scope-y literary novel with a dose of suspense that moves from Poland to California to the Hudson Valley and back to Poland. It covers a decade in the lives of an American journalist and a Polish small businessman turned petty criminal and the wrenching aftermath of an accidental, tragic encounter between these two on a snowy night in 2006 on the outskirts of Krakow. The accident costs the lives of the American journalist Richard Brennan's wife and daughter, an event that colors the rest of his life. It also leads to a downward spiral for Bogdan Baranowsk, leaving emotional scars as he suffers the seemingly inevitable loss of his business, his home, and his wife. <i>The Unmade World</i> is a story of ordinary, otherwise decent people from various backgrounds and circumstances who must learn how to live with the personal grief, sense of guilt, and the emotional consequences of violence. Along the way, the novel grapples with a spectrum of cultural and political issues. It includes a murder mystery wrapped around the corruption of major college sports, the pressures on immigrants and refugees in both the US and Poland, the fallout of political change, economic upheavals and armed conflicts—including the horrific destruction of Luhansk, Ukraine in 2014. It also references the 2016 presidential campaign, cultural politics in the American university, and the demise of print journalism, etc., though never in a dogmatic or overtly partisan way. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:20:50. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9267e322-508d-4dca-b494-c82a4901c41b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9267e322-508d-4dca-b494-c82a4901c41b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9267e322-508d-4dca-b494-c82a4901c41b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BMLLS