My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century

* Winner: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Outstanding Book Award 2016 *

“My father was born into war,” begins this remarkable saga in Alisse Waterston’s intimate ethnography, a story that is also twentieth-century social history. This is an anthropologist’s vivid account of her father’s journey across continents, countries, cultures, languages, generations—and wars. It is a daughter’s moving portrait of a charming, funny, wounded, and difficult man, his relationships with those...