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In Borrowed Houses - epub sample

Frances Fuller's memoir, 'In Borrowed Houses' details her many years spent in Lebanon as a Christian publisher. It is an utterly unique and engaging book that could have been written by no other person

In Lebanon, a country fragmented by war, the Fullers are house-hunting, because they have a job to do— publishing Christian literature in the Arabic language. The house they find is mostly a heap of rocks, Frances thinks, but Wayne has visions of turning it into a beautiful and comfortable home. Meanwhile the Syrian occupation, an Israeli invasion, the bombing of the American Marines, artillery battles, car bombs and kidnappings impact their lives.

Told in short episodes, Fuller’s book reveals the alienation, confusion and courage of civilians in civil war, introducing to the reader a variety of real people with whom the author interacts: editors, salesmen, neighbors, refugees, soldiers, missionaries, lawyers, shepherds, artists, students. With these people she works, studies, plays games, prays, laughs and cries, all to the accompaniment of gunfire. Together these small stories tell what war is like for civilians caught on a battlefield, and they create the impression of the Lebanese as a fun-loving, witty, patient and resilient people. They also compose, not a political history, but a historical document of a time and a place.

At the same time these stories advance Fullers’ personal story of struggling to build a publishing house, to fulfill her commitments to God and to stand by the people she loves. In the process of relating her experiences, Fuller lets the reader in on personal fears, memorable dreams, mental conflicts, some opinions on such issues as the ethics of war, and ways that she grew spiritually in times of stress. In two short segments that vary from the story format, she shares her “Twenty Rules for Surviving Civil War” and her observations on small-country and big-country ways of thinking.

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