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Instead of letting fear rule her life, Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt found ways to overcome it.
Terrorism first intersected Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt's life in 1982 when she was twelve years old and living in Israel. Its shadow loomed closer when her family moved to Beirut at the height of the Lebanese Civil War to accompany her father on his United Nations peacekeeping mission. That was forty years ago. But the aftershock, the trauma, and the imprint of terror, remain. In these essays, the reader moves from the Middle East to Europe, from Quebec's Eastern Townships to Yellowknife, from exercise studios to hospital rooms by way of theatres and opera houses. The journey is challenging, yet it carries both redemption and hope.
When asked how to defeat terrorism, Salman Rushdie answered, "Don't be terrified. Don't let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared." The essays in Carrying War are about one woman's life-long struggle with fear and the ways she has found to overcome it.
Contents
Preface
Part I
Atlas, Bayonet, (War) Correspondence: An Abecedarian
The Monster on My Pillow
Maria Lactans
Terrorist Narratives
City of the Dead
Like a Flock of Homesick Cranes
5972 12th Avenue, Rosemont
What the Thieves Left Behind
Terrorist Mythologies
Deportment Classes and Other Calamities
The Healing Virtues of Olives
Part II
Subways: An Inventory
The Dirty War
Out of Deep Waters
Ticket to the Opera
Learning the Cello at Forty
Vulnerability
Dear Marquise of Huxelles
Sanctuary
Wrestling Cerberus and Scylla
Mirrors: A Triptych
Soldier's Heart (and Other Names for Trauma)
Part III
My Libraries
With the Skin of My Teeth
Choking: A Diptych
Jellybeans
Pathologies
Valediction
Guns: A Personal Geography
Old Clothes
The Edge of the Map
Jam Tomorrow: Alice in Wonderland, My Father, and Me
Author's Note
Gratitude
Acknowledgements
