Sarah Sentilles 'Draw Your Weapons'
from Avid Reader Events Hosted by Avid Reader
US Author Sarah Sentilles in conversation with Bri Lee about Sarah's fourth book, 'Draw Your Weapons'. This book is available for purchase here: http://avidreader.com.au/products/draw-your-weapons “Now more than ever, the world needs a book like Draw Your Weapons. With mastery, urgency, and great courage, Sarah Sentilles investigates the histories of art, violence, war, and human survival. In her haunting and absorbing narrative, the act of storytelling, itself, becomes a matter of life and death.”— Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperilled world? In 'Draw Your Weapons', Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defence of life lived by peace and principle. Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature and theology, Sentilles tells the true stories of a conscientious objector during World War II and a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib. In the process she challenges conventional thinking about how violence is waged, witnessed and resisted. 'Draw Your Weapons' stirs and confronts, disturbs and illuminates. A single book might not change the world, but this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world—and that makes all the difference. This podcast was recorded by Avid Reader Bookstore in Brisbane as part of our year-round events schedule. For more information and to see what we having coming up, visit our website: www.avidreader.com.au/
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