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Smashwords Bombardirovka Synopsis

Journalist Jada Perlmutter becomes the story she seeks as she travels from Soviet Moscow to the mountainous "South" where her lover Zadik plans to take up being a guerrilla fighter in a new breakaway state. Injured, Jada is transported back to Moscow. Years later, in NYC, the taste of ash in her mouth sends Jada back to the Caucasus to conclude the story she had left unfinished.

Bombardirovka does not take sides or point fingers at anyone, that is, unless I, as its writer, am also pointing a finger at myself.

In 2004, one person I interviewed while doing research for this novel was just leaving his job doing landmine retrieval to pursue his dream of playing in his town's new orchestra. He had this to say:

"After this war [between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh], we live in our heads. Nothing seems real any more. After knowing what I know now, I don't wish war on anyone, or on anyone's children. The financial assistance to us has been very helpful, but what has also meant a lot is when the French [Doctors Without Borders], when they have come and helped us deal psychologically. The psychological issues have been the most hard for us to grapple with."

That sold me on my responsibility with Bombardirovka. His words remind me that many people shared their stories and of themselves toward its making. His words remind me how war affects us all.

That’s why I am giving Bombardirovka away. Although I wrote it, it was, in its way, a community effort. I am therefore sharing it with the larger community.

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Art Knows No Borders
was a very successful art, literary, and music event to raise awareness about and money for the work of Doctors Without Borders.

Doctors Without Borders is a nonpartisan medical relief agency helping many people in war zones around the world.

For more information about Doctors Without Borders aka Médecins Sans Frontières, visit their web site at: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org

To give directly now to Doctors Without Borders, go to: http://www.firstgiving.com/art-knows-no-borders/

Thanks so much to everyone that made Art Knows No Borders a great success!

Art Knows No Borders 11/18/08, photo by Rachel Spurr

See the slide show from 11/18/08 here, photos by Rachel Spurr

For more information about Art Knows No Borders, visit: http://www.artknowsnoborders.com

Thanks to everyone that came out on 11/18/08 for such a great cause and a good time!

THANKS AGAIN TO THESE ARTISTS!

Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca, Danny Setiawan, Lidya Tchakerian, Alice Dean, Suzanne Gibson, Vera Arutyunyan, Ryuta Nakajima, Biz Lopez, Seda Baghdasarian, Mavis Taylor, Lamp Community, Donna M. Woods, Norton Wisdom, Dana Wyss, Jocelyn Jaggers, Arlene Bogna, Keely Perkins

for contributing their artwork to the first five-hundred "draft" copies of Bombardirovka. It was very special to have you and your work involved.

Artist Alice Dean paints covers for Bombardirovka during Art Knows No Borders 2008.

Photo by Rachel Spurr