Love, loss and memory thieves... With more than his memories trapped inside his head, Falon is struggling to keep control. His mind has fractured into three, but will he be able to put the pieces together again? Delving deeper into the consequences of memory magic, Scars of Cereba picks off where Last Memoria ended, rejoining Falon and Sarilla in country that just can't quite forget its past, no matter what memories are stolen. “Rachel has done it again with her incredible storytelling. This is a book that seriously needs to be read and appreciated for what it is. A blooming masterpiece.” - Justine, Bookstagram’s Bookshelf Fairy.
Love, lies and memory thieves. There's nothing Sarilla hates more than stealing memories, but the king forces her to, just so he can keep his subjects in line. She wants to escape to where nobody knows what she is or what she can do, but her plans go awry when she runs into someone she would much rather forget. Falon has a six-month void in his memories that he's desperate to restore. He doesn't know why they were taken or what they contained, nor why the man he loves is acting so cagily about what happened during that time. He hopes to use Sarilla to get back what was stolen from him and isn't interested in why she's so desperate to escape. She will help him get back what he's lost, whether she wants to or not. Join Sarilla and Falon in this twisted tale about how sometimes good intentions aren't enough to keep the darkness at bay.
Love, loss and memory thieves... With more than his memories trapped inside his head, Falon is struggling to keep control. His mind has fractured into three, but will he be able to put the pieces together again? Delving deeper into the consequences of memory magic, Scars of Cereba picks off where Last Memoria ended, rejoining Falon and Sarilla in country that just can't quite forget its past, no matter what memories are stolen. “Rachel has done it again with her incredible storytelling. This is a book that seriously needs to be read and appreciated for what it is. A blooming masterpiece.” - Justine, Bookstagram’s Bookshelf Fairy.
Love, lies and memory thieves. There's nothing Sarilla hates more than stealing memories, but the king forces her to, just so he can keep his subjects in line. She wants to escape to where nobody knows what she is or what she can do, but her plans go awry when she runs into someone she would much rather forget. Falon has a six-month void in his memories that he's desperate to restore. He doesn't know why they were taken or what they contained, nor why the man he loves is acting so cagily about what happened during that time. He hopes to use Sarilla to get back what was stolen from him and isn't interested in why she's so desperate to escape. She will help him get back what he's lost, whether she wants to or not. Join Sarilla and Falon in this twisted tale about how sometimes good intentions aren't enough to keep the darkness at bay.
The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by United States and coalition forces was followed by a flood of aid and development dollars and "experts" representing well over two thousand organizations--each with separate policy initiatives, geopolitical agendas, and socioeconomic interests. This book examines the everyday actions of people associated with this international effort, with a special emphasis on small players: individuals and groups who charted alternative paths outside the existing networks of aid and development. This focus highlights the complexities, complications, and contradictions at the intersection of the everyday and the geopolitical, showing how dominant geopolitical narratives influence daily life in places like Afghanistan--and what happens when the goals of aid workersor the needs of aid recipients do not fit the narrative. Specifically, this book examines the use of gender, "need," and grief as drivers for both common and exceptional responses to geopolitical interventions.Throughout this work, Jennifer L. Fluri and Rachel Lehr describe intimate encounters at a microscale to complicate and dispute the ways in which Afghans and their country have been imagined, described, fetishized, politicized, vilified, and rescued. The authors identify the ways in which Afghan men and women have been narrowly categorized as perpetrators and victims, respectively. They discuss several projects to show how gender and grief became forms of currency that were exchanged for different social, economic, and political opportunities. Such entanglements suggest the power and influence of the United States while illustrating the ways in which individuals and groups have attempted to chart alternative avenues of interaction, intervention, and interpretation.
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