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HOME FREE: AN AMERICAN ROAD TRIP

Ethan Casey turns his attention to another society struggling through a time of confusion, economic and political distress and uncertainty, and transition: the United States. He is spending the fall of 2012 driving around America clockwise, beginning and ending in Seattle, spanning the presidential election season and its immediate aftermath, and covering most regions of the continental U.S. Home Free: An American Road Trip is available for pre-purchase. Support the project by buying it now, and your copy will be shipped to you immediately on publication, in fall 2013.

 

BEARING THE BRUISE: A LIFE GRACED BY HAITI

In the wake of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, he resolved to write the story of how Haiti permanently and profoundly changed his understanding of human life and history in this world. To complete Bearing the Bruise: A Life Graced by Haiti (2012) he returned to Haiti three times in 2010 and 2011, and his account of the quake’s aftermath is deeply informed by 30 years’ worth of personal experience. “Haiti is a place for big questions,” he writes. “A heartfelt account … an informed perspective on many of the political and social complexities that vex those who seek to make common cause with Haiti.” – Paul Farmer

 

OVERTAKEN BY EVENTS: A PAKISTAN ROAD TRIP

Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip (2010) recounts Ethan Casey’s journey from Mumbai, India – three months after a major terrorist attack on that city – to Karachi, Pakistan. Updating the story told in Casey’s acclaimed 2004 travel book Alive and Well in Pakistan, Overtaken By Events humanizes Pakistanis for a global readership and offers compelling perspectives on events during a volatile period in a chronically volatile country, from the assassination of Benazir Bhutto to the “lawyers’ movement” for the restoration of an independent judiciary. “Compulsively readable” – Bapsi Sidhwa

 

ALIVE AND WELL IN PAKISTAN: A HUMAN JOURNEY IN A DANGEROUS TIME

Alive and Well in Pakistan: A Human Journey in a Dangerous Time (2004) is an essential document of Pakistan just as its people were being drawn into the vortex of 21st-century events from which they, and the world, have yet to emerge. Spanning both sides of the wrenching events of September 11, 2001, it covers the first decade of Casey’s acquaintance with Pakistan and includes accounts of his visits to disputed Kashmir Valley at the height of the unrest there in the mid-1990s, as well as a semester he spent teaching in Lahore in 2003-04. “The author’s real journey is a search for common humanity.” – The Daily Telegraph

 

  • Calendar

    • Fri, Jul 19 – Sun, Jul 21:Oakland, CA: RASAMBLE Haitian cultural festival
    • Wed, Sep 18:Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University
    • Mon, Sep 23:Seattle, WA: Town Hall Seattle
    • Sat, Oct 5 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm:University of Chicago: The Pakistan Club
    • Thu, Oct 17 – Fri, Oct 18:Fort Worth, TX: TCU
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  • Pre-Purchase: Home Free: An American Road Trip

  • Home Free

  • Bearing The Bruise

         
      "A heartfelt account … an informed perspective on many of the political and social complexities that vex those who seek to make common cause with Haiti.” — Dr. Paul Farmer

  • Overtaken By Events

      Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip is the account of Ethan Casey’s journey, entirely overland, starting in Mumbai, India - just three months after the November 2008 terrorist siege ...

  • Alive and Well in Pakistan

         
      "The author’s real journey is a search for common humanity.” — The Daily Telegraph