Siamak Vossoughi on Childhood at a Time of War

Third Place Books welcomes University of Washington educator Siamak Vossoughi for a conversation about his new book The Qualities of Children that We Thought Were Stronger Than Bombs, which honors the lives of children jeopardized by war while exploring childhood as a true, tangible opposite to warfare.

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About The Qualities of Children that We Thought Were Stronger Than Bombs…

The Qualities of Children that We Thought Were Stronger Than Bombs is the story of the time before a bomb killed a child. It may have been a moment, a day, a week, or a year before. It is a story that is meant to celebrate their lives and the absolute genius of childhood. Peace is the opposite of war, but childhood can seem like a truer opposite, a more tangible one, and this book seeks to make a case for that possibility.

Siamak Vossoughi is an Iranian-American writer living in Seattle. His first short story collection, Better Than War, received a 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and his second, A Sense of the Whole, received the 2019 Orison Fiction Prize. He teaches in the College of Education at the University of Washington.

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