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020 $a9781609383282$q(pbk. ;$qalk. paper)
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050 00 $aDT387.954.B37$bA3 2015
082 04 $a963/.071092$223
049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aBascom, Tim,$d1961-$eauthor.
245 10 $aRunning to the fire :$ban American missionary comes of age in revolutionary Ethiopia /$cTim Bascom.
264 1 $aIowa City :$bUniversity of Iowa Press,$c[2015]
300 $a232 pages :$bmap ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aSightline books
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 231-232).
505 0 $aLit -- Into the furnace -- Fire and sky -- Scorched -- Ashes, ashes -- A voice from the flames -- Epilogue.
520 $a"In the streets of Addis Ababa in 1977, shop-front posters illustrate Uncle Sam being strangled by an Ethiopian revolutionary, parliamentary leaders are executed, student protesters are gunned down, and Christian mission converts are targeted as imperialistic sympathizers. Into this world arrives sixteen-year-old Tim Bascom, whose missionary parents have brought their family from a small town in Kansas straight into Colonel Mengistu's Marxist "Red Terror." Here they plan to work alongside a tiny remnant of western missionaries who trust that God will somehow keep them safe. Running to the Fire focuses on the turbulent year the Bascom family experienced upon traveling into revolutionary Ethiopia. The teenage Bascom finds a paradoxical exhilaration in living so close to constant danger. At boarding school in Addis Ababa, where dorm parents demand morning devotions and forbid dancing, Bascom bonds with other youth due to a shared sense of threat. He falls in love for the first time, but the young couple is soon separated by the politics that affect all their lives. Across the country, missionaries are being held under house arrest while communist cadres seize their hospitals and schools. A friend's father is imprisoned as a suspected CIA agent; another is killed by raiding Somalis. Throughout, the teenaged Bascom struggles with his faith and his role within the conflict as a white American Christian missionary's child. Reflecting back as an adult, he explores the historical, cultural, and religious contexts that led to this conflict, even though in doing so he is forced to ask himself questions that are easier left alone. Why, he wonders, did he find such strange fulfillment in being young and idealistic in the middle of what was essentially a kind of holy war?"--Publisher.
590 $bArchive
600 10 $aBascom, Tim,$d1961-$xChildhood and youth.
600 17 $aBascom, Tim,$d1961-$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00324328
651 0 $aEthiopia$xHistory$yRevolution, 1974$vPersonal narratives, American.
651 0 $aEthiopia$xDescription and travel.
650 0 $aAmericans$zEthiopia$vBiography.
650 0 $aMissionaries$zEthiopia.
650 7 $aAmericans.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00807488
650 7 $aMissionaries.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01023720
650 7 $aTravel.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01155558
651 7 $aEthiopia.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01205830
647 7 $aRevolution$c(Ethiopia :$d1974)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01354512
648 7 $a1974$2fast
655 7 $aBiographies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919896
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 $aPersonal narratives$vAmerican.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01424071
830 0 $aSightline books.
856 42 $uhttp://books.google.com/books?isbn=9781609383282$zAdditional Information at Google Books
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938 $aBaker and Taylor$bBTCP$nBK0015766609
938 $aCoutts Information Services$bCOUT$n29882568
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