Community Conversation: Roy Scranton's 'War Porn'

Join us for a community conversation about author Roy Scranton's recently-released novel, 'War Porn'. Scranton will be in conversation with Duke University Professor, author and literary scholar, Abdul Sattar Jawad.

Co-hosted by the Forum for Scholars and Publics and The Regulator Bookshop

About 'War Porn':

In 'War Porn', three lives fit inside one another like nesting dolls: a restless young woman at an end-of-summer barbecue in Utah; an American soldier in occupied Baghdad; and Qasim al-Zabadi, an Iraqi math professor, who faces the US invasion of his country with fear, denial, and perseverance. As 'War Porn' cuts from America to Iraq and back again, as home and hell merge, we come to see America through the eyes of the occupied, even as we see Qasim become a prisoner of the occupation. Through the looking glass of 'War Porn', Scranton reveals the fragile humanity that connects Americans and Iraqis, torturers and the tortured, victors and their victims.