{"product_id":"not-all-dead-together-9781634050715","title":"Not All Dead Together","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot All Dead Together is a sweeping saga that chronicles the lives of family members brought together by blood and by choice over decades of violent sociopolitical conflict and exploitative foreign relations between the United States and Guatemala.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough lyrical, richly detailed narratives told from multiple perspectives over a period of 65 years, we meet an ensemble cast of characters at critical points in their lives. Miguel, a physician at a neighborhood clinic in Guatemala, must immediately treat a boy who shot his own hand. Years earlier, his sister, Aleta, strives to improve the lives of her indigenous neighbors despite relentless systemic injustices and the constant threat of state-sponsored terror. A rudderless young Peace Corps volunteer named Gray finds the familial connection she craves in caring and perceptive Aleta, brilliant Miguel, their guileful brother, Carlos, and their kindhearted mother, Do?a Paz. As the characters' paths intertwine, all question the direction of their lives in a world where the political and personal are inextricable and their choices can have life-or-death consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaster storyteller Lynn Stansbury creates a vivid and intimate portrait of how the Guatemalan Civil War - a horrendous era in foreign policy that the U.S. rarely confronts - upended the lives of ordinary people and continues to perpetuate harm across generations. At once fierce and tender, Not All Dead Together wrestles with complex questions on the meaning of heroism, resilience, and found family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynn Stansbury\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and a semi-retired community medicine physician who has lived and worked all over the world, but came of age in Guatemala as a Peace Corps volunteer during the Vietnam War. She now lives in Seattle, where she reviews fiction for \u003ci\u003eThe Baltimore Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and she and her husband keep tabs on family in California and New Zealand.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Chin Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298410201362,"sku":"9781634050715","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bab3087c-90a0-4fd4-8c86-2bd6ae6642e5.jpg?v=1747819455","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/not-all-dead-together-9781634050715","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}