The Best Peace Fiction – A Social Justice Anthology Butler Nguyen Paperback

The Best Peace FictionA Social Justice Anthology\nAuthor(s): Robert Olen Butler, Phong Nguyen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of New Mexico Press, United States\nImprint: University of New Mexico Press\nISBN-13: 9780826363039, 978-0826363039\nSynopsis\nIn the first anthology of its kind, Robert Olen Butler and Phong Nguyen assemble an astounding collection of stories that cause readers to contemplate war, peace, and social justice in a new light. The fourteen stories featured in this volume explore the varied and often unexpected outcomes of violence. The authors explore the tragedies that occur closer to home--not on military battlefields but rather in places that are never meant to be battlefields, like schools and churches. The fiction reveals the violence that renders our most sacred and seemingly safest of places vulnerable.\n\nNot a utopian project, this book asks whether literature has a role in furthering the ongoing pursuit of peace and justice for all. While explo.