Robert Madrygin. (2017). The Solace of Trees: A Novel. Steerforth Press.

Robert Madrygin. 2017. The Solace of Trees: A Novel. Steerforth Press.

Robert Madrygin, The Solace of Trees: A Novel. Steerforth Press, 2017.

Robert Madrygin. The Solace of Trees: A Novel. Steerforth Press, 2017.

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   • bioText: Robert Madrygin has experienced the meaning of culture, ethnicity, and language from many perspectives. As a child he lived in US-occupied Japan, attended a local school, and learned to speak Japanese. His father's career then brought him back to the US to live on both coasts, and subsequently to Morocco, Franco-ruled Spain, and Paris. The adjustment in cultural shifts and moving from home to home were made all the more difficult due to the illness his mother suffered throughout her life, causing long periods of hospitalization and necessitating that he be placed in a succession of temporary homes during his early childhood. While Madrygin was in his teens, his father suffered a series of massive debilitating strokes and his mother died. On his own at a young age, he continued a life of travel. He worked in Spain as a laborer, in Italy as a deckhand on a ship, and in Alaska on a railroad and as a crew member on a fishing boat. Madrygin first started writing in his early twenties but put it aside when he met his future wife, married, and started a family. During this period Madrygin, his wife, and three children lived in the US, Ecuador, and Spain and traveled widely. It wasn't until years later, while living in Spain, with his children now grown, that the call to writing returned, and Madrygin, informed by a lifetime of experience, took up where he had left off decades earlier. He and his wife live currently in Vermont.
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A Bosnian War orphan of Muslim heritage escapes his homeland, finds a new family in New England, and learns to deal with his trauma—and years later falls into the depths of post-9/11 America's extraordinary rendition program. A piercing and resonant debut novel about war and the endurance of the human spirit, and a cautionary tale about the damage that can be inflicted upon war victims when wealthy nations become obsessed with self-protection and retribution. This book contains an author Q&A at the back, and so is ideal for book group adoption and discussion.
The Solace of Trees tells the story of Amir, a young boy of secular Muslim heritage who witnesses his family's murder in the Bosnian War. Amir hides in a forest, mute and shocked, among refugees fleeing for their lives. Narrowly escaping death while wandering through rural Bosnia, he finds sanctuary in a UN camp. After a charity relocates him to the United States, the retired professor who fosters Amir learns that the boy holds a shameful secret concerning his parents' and sister's deaths.
Amir's years in the US bring him healing and a loving place in a new family. In college he falls in love⎯and he accepts the request of a professor of Islamic studies to edit a documentary film on the plight of Palestinians. 9/11 comes, and with it, the arrest of the professor for his ties to terrorist organizations. As Amir enters adulthood, his destiny brings him full circle back to the darkness he thought he'd forever escaped.
For fans of Sara Novic's Girl at War, Kenan Trebincevic's The Bosnia List, and Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo.

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     May 29, 2017
     In Madrygin’s gripping debut, the horrors of war give way to the challenges of carving out a life in a hostile country. Amir is an 11-year-old living on a farm in Bosnia when his world is thrown into turmoil after the breakout of civil war. When his family is killed, Amir joins a group of strangers who eventually make their way to a UN camp. After a long, stifling wait at the camp Amir is finally given a chance to go to the United States. Amir thrives in the new country. Fostered by a former university professor, he becomes a film major and begins working on a documentary. But his upward trajectory and growing optimism are soon blunted by xenophobia (particularly Islamophobia) and post-9/11 anxiety that place him instantly in the role of antagonist in a country he has barely begun to know. Arrested and questioned about possible terrorist ties, Amir struggles to find a way to prove his innocence. Madrygin’s stark third-person narration allows focus on the difficulties faced by immigrants and refugees, particularly children who are struggling with trauma. But at times the writing becomes literal and overly detailed, walking the reader from point to point more like reportage than prose. While the novel effectively captures the broad strokes of life as a refugee, it never convincingly brings the human side of the story to life.

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     June 1, 2017
     Madrygin's harrowing, compelling debut will live long in the reader's memory. It follows Amir Beganovic-Morgan, a Bosnian Muslim refugee, as he tries to rebuild his life in the U.S. After a prologue that hints that Amir's ethnicity will once again render him guilty by association, the story moves back to an 11-year-old Amir luckily escaping the ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian War, but only after losing his family, speech, and hearing. The story follows Amir from a UN refugee camp to a foster home in New England, and then on to college. Though the writing can be didactic and occasionally falls into cliche, Amir is a character the reader comes to care for deeply. When his promising life eventually clashes with post-9/11 attitudes and laws, Amir's tale, like Dave Eggers' What Is the What (2006), exposes the consequences of the often arbitrary, horrific policies of the war on terror. A timely novel that introduces a writer of huge ambition, The Solace of Trees is deeply informative and moving, and it will spark debates regarding American foreign policy.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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