Kirjahaku

From fiction writer and journalist Carol Bergman comes a potpourri of very short stories, aphorisms, anecdotes, verbal snapshots, and mini-essays: The NOMADS TRILOGY, Books 1, 2 & 3 in one volume. In these subtle, profound and original works, each using a different narrative persona, Bergman demonstrates her experience as a storyteller. Like Lydia Davis and Czeslaw Milosz, her writing is both unique and difficult to classify, yet its cumulative affect in this volume is clear. Humorous, perceptive, precise, wry, sometimes chilling, she writes about war and peace, love and disappointment, the mundane and the sublime, with deep attention and warmth.

In this expanded edition of SAY NOTHING, rookie Private Investigator Alison Jenkins, recently returned from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, teams up with her mentor, PI Margaret Singer, to solve the disappearance of a decorated veteran. Not far into the investigation, the detectives realize that the young man's disappearance is only one of several related crimes committed in their jurisdiction, and that the FBI has invoked the Patriot Act. Set in Ulster Country, NY, originally in habited by the Munsee tribe, the sense of danger intensifies with each new revelation, A political thriller, a murder mystery, and a meditation on the futility of colonialism and war, SAY NOTHING will twist its way into your psyche and not let go.