Julia
Lieblich will be at After-Words books on Monday, May 14th at 6p.m. reading
and signing copies of her book Wounded I am More Awake: Finding Meaning
After Terror (Vanderbilt
University Press, Paperback, $19.95).
Wounded I Am More Awake follows the story of
Esad Boskailo, a doctor who survives six concentration camps in Bosnia and
emerges with powerful new lessons for healing in an age of genocide. This
gripping account raises questions for healers, survivors, and readers striving
to understand the reality of war and the aftermath of terror. Is it possible to
find meaning after enduring crimes against humanity? Can people heal after
trauma? Human rights journalist Julia
Lieblich takes the reader through Boskailo's early years under Tito to the wars
when friends turned on friends. She documents his harrowing experiences in the
camps, where the men he once joined for coffee murder his best friend from
childhood. But the story does not end
there. Boskailo moves to the United
States and decides to become a psychiatrist
so he can guide survivors through the long-term process of restoring hope. Today,
inspired by the late psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl,
Boskailo uses his own experience to help patients mourn their losses and find
meaning in the aftermath of terror.
Julia Lieblich is an award-winning human rights journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Time, Life, and Ms. A former religion writer for the Chicago Tribune and the Associated Press, she is an assistant professor of journalism at Loyola University Chicago.
