J. Malcolm Garcia
Author
Publisher
Hot Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"There is perhaps no starker example of the domestic costs and blindspots of America's modern military exploits than the continued practice of deporting men and women who have served in our armed forces. In this book, J. Malcolm Garcia reports from across the country and abroad, profiling veterans who have been deported, as well as the families and friends they have left behind. Without a Country analyzes the political and cultural climate that has...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning journalist, J. Malcolm Garcia's, essays highlight the struggle, survival, and endurance of average people affected by the injustices of America's remorseless mammoth institutions and public indifference. They include families and small businesses still recovering from the BP Oil Spill; the man sentenced to life in prison for transporting drugs to save his son's life; the widows of soldiers who died, not in war, but from toxic fumes...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Out of the Rain takes us into the growing world of the homeless in the United States, particularly in San Francisco. Here we read their powerful stories, which examine not just poverty but bottom-of-the-barrel destitution, and in many cases self-destruction. Tom, who runs a social services agency, doesn't play by a book of rules as much as try to bring some humanity to his work. Then there is Walter, a homeless man who can't save himself from booze...