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MLKNG SCKLS is a short collection of Salim Abid's deleted Word documents written during his escape up the Euphrates from Fallujah to Ramadi. These texts could have been included in Falcons on the Floor, which is the novel Salim wrote about fleeing from his war ravaged city, but for sensitive reasons he chose to remove them.
That metanarrative provides the conceit of this chapbook, lushly composed by Justin Sirois (author of Secondary Sound, BlazeVOX 2008) and edited by Iraqi refugee Haneen Alshujairy. MLKNG SCKLS provides a bristling and necessary look into the realities of living in Iraq, complete with dying laptop batteries, knock-off sneakers, and carnage-lined roadways.
“Sirois’ MLKNG SCKLS reads like what might happen if you crossed Gus Van Sant’s Gerry with the parts of an Iraq war documentary that the Bush administration had censored. A tight, spare and quietly tense gem of a book.”
-Brian Evenson, author of Last Days and The Open Curtain
That metanarrative provides the conceit of this chapbook, lushly composed by Justin Sirois (author of Secondary Sound, BlazeVOX 2008) and edited by Iraqi refugee Haneen Alshujairy. MLKNG SCKLS provides a bristling and necessary look into the realities of living in Iraq, complete with dying laptop batteries, knock-off sneakers, and carnage-lined roadways.
“Sirois’ MLKNG SCKLS reads like what might happen if you crossed Gus Van Sant’s Gerry with the parts of an Iraq war documentary that the Bush administration had censored. A tight, spare and quietly tense gem of a book.”
-Brian Evenson, author of Last Days and The Open Curtain
Additional Information
| Author | Justin Sirois |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Publishing Genius |
| Page Count | 56pp |
| Publication Size | 5 x 7 |
| Publication Notes | softcover |
| Publication Date | 2010 |
| ISBN | 978-0982081334 |
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