Tue, Nov 19
|Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehous
Sid Balman Seventh Flag
Pulitzer Nominee Sid Balman’s Debut Novel is a complex portrait of division and radicalization in the U.S.
Date, Time & Location
Nov 19, 2019, 6:00 PM
Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehous, 202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM, USA
About the Event
A sweeping work of historical fiction, Seventh Flag, by Pulitzer nominee Sid Balman Jr. is a Micheneresque parable that traces the arc of radicalization in modern Western Civilization – reaffirming what it means to be an American in a dangerously divided nation. The U.S. and Europe have unraveled since World War II and radicalism has metastasized into every community, tearing away the decency, optimism, and security that shaped those robust democracies for more than eight decades. No place is immune, including the small West Texas town of Dell City, where four generations of an iconic American family and a Syrian Muslim family carve a farming empire out of the unforgiving high desert.
About the Author:
A Pulitzer-nominated national security correspondent, Sid Balman Jr. has covered wars in the Persian Gulf, Somalia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo, and has traveled extensively with two American presidents and four secretaries of state on overseas diplomatic…