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Title: The Running War

Author: E. L. Carter

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

There is no place on this round planet where I can run that will be any farther than the next place - any place will eventually spin on its axis until it reaches the point of departure.

War can live deep inside a family long after the combat has come and gone. With a poet's voice, E. L. Carter evokes that generational echo in the story of one grieving young woman who is trying to find her birthright.

Maddy has been running. She has run from her home, her family, and her lovers. Then her brother's suicide after being injured in the Iraq War, leaving her a mysterious note about a gift. With the help of an old family friend, she begins to explore her brother's story and her family history. As she works to uncover what her brother has left her, she finds herself in the middle of a parallel mystery: the legacy of her grandmother, a Gypsy holocaust survivor who has been ostracized by the family. In order to accept her brother's gift, Maddy eventually discovers that she must stop, listen, and face generations of women's war trauma that bridge Europe, the US, and the Middle East.

Part mystery, part meditation, The Running War weaves together narratives into a whole that asks as many questions as it answers. What does an enemy mean? How do we survive suffering? What is the women's legacy of war that embeds itself in generation after generation? Lyrical and haunting, The Running War is ultimately a call toward healing intergenerational trauma, no matter the source.

Members Reviews:

A lyrical novel that reads like a gift.

If you try to help a butterfly escape its cocoon, youâll probably kill it. But watching the frail creature batter its wings requires a certain patience and hope for the future. In E. L. Carterâs The Running War, protagonist Maddy batters herself with running. She wants to find out how her brother died. She wants to know why her grandmother disappeared. She wants answers, but only the exercise of running will give her the strength to hear them.

Lyrically written, with unobtrusive symbolism and hauntingly evocative details, the Running War takes readers to the scary streets of Iraq, where patience is surely needed. It clashes contrasting cultures, and remembers with haunting clarity earlier wars and earlier wounds. Times and places, while the novels runs forward and sideways, are made clear in chapter headings, as wings batter past to future to despair to hope.

A musician with her hands drawn to the strings, her heart to her dead brother, and her mind to the holes in family, Maddy will learn of gifts beyond giving and see âWhen someone has a giftâ it means they are giving. Your gift is what you give.â

The Running War reads like a giftâwords to savor like music, mysteries worth solving, hopes worth redeeming, and a dark cocoon hiding beauty thatâs waiting to fly.

Disclosure: I was given a preview edition by the publisher and I offer my honest review.

A very enjoyable reading expereience

The Running War by E.L. Carter is a beautifully written novel following the journey of a young woman running from past and present painful family trauma. Faced with the awful shock and grief from her brotherâs suicide, Maddy embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of a message he left for her, and in doing so unveils a hidden chapter in her familyâs history .