We'll Live Tomorrow, by Will Everett
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In an aid compound in southern Afghanistan, under the watchful eyes of the Taliban, lives Hunter Ames, an American grappling with a dark family history and a growing midlife malaise. As he tries to find meaning in the chaos, he meets the mysterious Karimullah, a former bacha bazi sex slave hunted by his master. We'll Live Tomorrow follows the unusual friendship the develops between the two. But menacing forces surround them, imbuing their friendship with the promise of salvation and the prospect of tragedy. Kirkus Reviews: From debut author Everett comes a novel about contemporary chaotic life in Afghanistan. Aid work was my life, Hunter Ames says. The divorced, middle-aged, former Peace Corps volunteer tries to do his small part to help rebuild war-torn Afghanistan, working for USAID, an American enterprise engaged in various projects to help the people of Afghanistan (and elsewhere) while building a positive relationship with its people. It's a job full of difficult personalities, corruption, and tremendous amounts of American money. What Is Not Spent Cannot Be Billed, Hunter's boss stressed. He referred to it as something so absolute and unquestioned that it might have been chiseled into stone tablets, meaning in effect that large amounts of taxpayer dollars had to be spent regardless of the usefulness in doing so. Because insurgent attacks and irate Afghanis were always a possibility, the job was dangerous and frustrating. Amid this quagmire is green-eyed Karimullah, a young Afghani man who escaped a life of forced prostitution in the hidden world of bacha bazi. Karimullah works for Americans such as Hunter, though doing so puts Karimullah s life in danger. How will these two ever survive a place as unstable and disjointed as Afghanistan? Everett offers an authentic look at the strange world of foreign aid work, with subject matter ranging from office politics to suicide bombers to the human need to be part of a group. "We're tribal creatures," says an acquaintance of Hunter's. The story goes deeper, exploring the former lives of Hunter and Karimullah in places that have little to do with the United States government. For instance, thinking about his son, Hunter reflects: "What do we ever really know about our parents?" Details of bureaucratic life can prove dull, however, particularly with the attendant emails and meetings: "I had a meeting planned that afternoon with the contractor who would be filling an order for farm machinery," Hunter says. Yet, on the whole, the narrative composes a realistic and touching image of the men and women involved in this complex relationship and the infinite trials of an operation as arcane and immense as rebuilding a nation. Occasionally drab due to its subject matter, but an insightful, impressively broad glimpse of a formidable mission.
We'll Live Tomorrow, by Will Everett - Amazon Sales Rank: #1258985 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-15
- Released on: 2015-10-15
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We'll Live Tomorrow, by Will Everett Review From debut author Everett comes a novel about contemporary chaotic life in Afghanistan. Aid work was my life, Hunter Ames says. The divorced, middle-aged, former Peace Corps volunteer tries to do his small part to help rebuild war-torn Afghanistan, working for USAID, an American enterprise engaged in various projects to help the people of Afghanistan (and elsewhere) while building a positive relationship with its people.
It's a job full of difficult personalities, corruption, and tremendous amounts of American money. What Is Not Spent Cannot Be Billed, Hunter's boss stressed. He referred to it as something so absolute and unquestioned that it might have been chiseled into stone tablets, meaning in effect that large amounts of taxpayer dollars had to be spent regardless of the usefulness in doing so. Because insurgent attacks and irate Afghanis were always a possibility, the job was dangerous and frustrating.
Amid this quagmire is green-eyed Karimullah, a young Afghani man who escaped a life of forced prostitution in the hidden world of bacha bazi. Karimullah works for Americans such as Hunter, though doing so puts Karimullah s life in danger. How will these two ever survive a place as unstable and disjointed as Afghanistan?
Everett offers an authentic look at the strange world of foreign aid work, with subject matter ranging from office politics to suicide bombers to the human need to be part of a group. "We're tribal creatures," says an acquaintance of Hunter's. The story goes deeper, exploring the former lives of Hunter and Karimullah in places that have little to do with the United States government. For instance, thinking about his son, Hunter reflects: "What do we ever really know about our parents?" Details of bureaucratic life can prove dull, however, particularly with the attendant emails and meetings: "I had a meeting planned that afternoon with the contractor who would be filling an order for farm machinery," Hunter says.
Yet, on the whole, the narrative composes a realistic and touching image of the men and women involved in this complex relationship and the infinite trials of an operation as arcane and immense as rebuilding a nation. Occasionally drab due to its subject matter, but an insightful, impressively broad glimpse of a formidable mission. --Kirkus ReviewsWill Everett leads us into the hidden world of Afghanistan society -- exotic, tawdry, calculating, dangerous and personal and human, as his American worker in Kabul learns. Everett's sensitive writing reflects his intimate knowledge of the land and its people while immersing us in an intriguing tale of questing for meaning and love. This is an important book for our one-world times. --Jan Seale, 2012 Texas Poet LaureateEverett has produced a novel that, in its own way, sums up his time as a foreign correspondent and later an employee of several large, U.S.-backed development programs. We'll Live Tomorrow reflects some of his own cynicism about the usefulness of short-term projects paired with military objectives.
Everett's novel, his first, is about the goals, hopes, faults, and occasionally the success of what he calls Big Aid - in this instance, a postwar reconstruction project more costly than the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II and perhaps even more ambitious. --Houston Chronicle
About the Author Will Everett is a native of Texas. As a journalist he has reported from the Middle East, South Asia and West Africa for National Public Radio, the BBC, Newsweek and other outlets. With Walter Cronkite he wrote and produced the 2006 documentary World War One Living History Project, honoring the last surviving veterans of World War I. His work has been recognized by the Society for Professional Journalists, the New York Festivals and the National Headliner Awards. He holds a master's degree from the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His choral collaboration with Joseph Martin, The Message, is published by Hal Leonard.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A must read for those who really want to understand what delivering aid is all about By blabla 'We'll live tomorrow' presents a fresh view of development work. Most of the literature published on the subject is either academic or journalistic, and while providing a good grasp of the role of development work in war, overlooks a fundamental component: the people doing the work.Hunter Ames, the main character of the book, is a cynical middle-aged American running a USAID programme in Afghanistan at the height of the war. To achieve his objectives, he must navigate through a Kafkaesque environment that requires spending millions in very short-time frames, leading to corruption and absurd development initiatives. But Everett, who by the way writes admirably well, goes further than many books and articles that simply criticise the use of American aid. Ames’ relationship with his local staff, particularly Karimullah, a cheerful Afghan boy with whom he develops an unusual friendship, opens the doors to some aspects of Afghan culture mostly unknown to the Western reader, such as that of the bacha bazi, Afghan male slaves. The friendship between these opposing characters skilfully interlaces two worlds, not only presenting a very personal account of American involvement in Afghanistan, but also giving us a taste as to how Afghans viewed the intervention, an aspect authors have rarely dealt with.To sum up, Everett skilfully describes the lives of those implementing aid programmes, their fears and emotions, the doubts they have about themselves and their work, as well as the relationships they develop with the local population. In the end, through two exceptional characters, ‘We’ll live tomorrow’ helps us understand why it is so hard for aid programmes to achieve results. I can’t wait for Everett’s next adventure!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Worth the spade work By Ferdinand Foch I preview books for a large metropolitan library, and lately quite a few books have crossed my desk on the subject of Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East in general. Where fiction is concerned, we're fairly discerning when it comes to purchasing works by new or unknown authors, given our limited budget. We'll Live Tomorrow interested me, though, because it takes on the subject of bacha bazi "pleasure boys," an issue that I'd recently seen in a PBS documentary. I was also curious about the international aid angle, and how these two very different subjects could be woven together into a narrative.This is not the sort of book that hooks you in from the first page - it takes a bit of spade work. I'll admit that I found the American character a little annoying in the early chapters. His cynicism and world-weariness made him unsympathetic. What kept me reading was the interwoven story of the Afghan "pleasure boy", his sad origins and his enslavement to a Kandahar warlord (reminiscent of the biblical Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers). This is difficult material, but I found that the author handled it quite well. The tone of the Afghan boy's story was almost fairy-tale like in its simplicity. I did not want to see a lot of shocking sex scenes, and was grateful to be spared. (The author's ability to impart these dark side issues without actually describing them is reminiscent of Mary Renault's treatment of sex slavery in The Persian Boy.) And in time I did warm up to the rather unsympathetic main character, whose dark cynicism served to set off the Afghan boy's charming optimism and sense of life. By the second half of the book I was definitely hooked, particularly as the author began to show the relationship between these two characters blossoming.There are some loose ends and cul-de-sacs in this story, however, which prevented me from giving it 5 stars. Book Two takes us to France and then to Africa, where the American and his wife and son embark on aid work. A lot of this was important for establishing the tragic death of the American's son, but I was so drawn into the story of the Afghan boy that these detours seemed unwarranted and at times intrusive. There is also the matter of the American's ambiguous sexuality. Clearly the Afghan boy has elicited more than just a "friendly feeling" in him. I would have liked more information on how he wrestled with this. Spoiler: there is a romantic kiss between the two at the climax of a Taliban attack at the end. This struck me as coming a little out of nowhere. Is the American a closet case? What is the nature of his love for the Afghan boy? This is left for the reader to answer.All in all a very well written book and a compelling story. Provides interesting insights into how American relief money is being spent overseas. i would have enjoyed more of this -- at times I felt like the author was channeling Upton Sinclair in trying to expose the dark machinations of Big Aid.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The culture the protagonist takes us through is nothing that was expected however enlightens. By Betsy Price We have such an innocent, simplistic and idealistic view of war, culture and what accomplishes peace. This book exposes a, should be new, but not, realization of how we achieve peace and those who work for it. Bless those who believe it can be accomplished. Let those who believe win. It required two readings for me to comprehend what the author was describing as we try to ready Afghanistan to go it alone . Nothing in the popular press prepares us for the culture practices of dancing boys that are so complex, so self serving that add to the wall that prevents the country from achieving independence. Nothing prepares us for the selfishness and bravery for those aid workers who work towards prosperity, peace and happiness of a war weary country. This should be required reading for everyone who wants to truly understand how culture is more powerful than bullets.
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