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A stunning, searing, and inventive memoir about becoming a father in age terror. In 2007, during the a few months before Nick Flynn's daughter's delivery, his growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photos, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in those images. Haunted by a brief history of addiction, a relationship along with his unsteady daddy, and a longing to hook up with his mom who devoted suicide, Flynn artfully interweaves in this memoir passages from his child years, his romantic relationships with women, and his growing obsession a questioning of terror, torture, and the political offences we can neither see nor understand in post-9/11 American life. Enough time bomb of the title becomes an improbable metaphor and vehicle for exploring the fears and joys to become a father. This is a memoir of serious self-discovery to be lost and found, of painful family thoughts and deficits, of the need to run from love, and of the ability to adopt it again. .
