{"product_id":"if-you-turn-to-look-back-a-memoir-and-meditation-9781954907669","title":"If You Turn to Look Back: A Memoir and Meditation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf You Turn to Look Back\u003c\/em\u003e combines memoir with political, social, and economic investigations of what it means to be an American and a citizen of the world. American influence is ubiquitous in South America, and \u003cem\u003eIf You Turn to Look Back\u003c\/em\u003e explores these relationships in a personal context. For Tom Hazuka was once part of that influence, from 1978-1980 as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chile, first in the capital of Santiago, then in the far northern city of Arica, near the Peruvian border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a chain of events springing from the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, in 2003 Hazuka returned to Chile to examine changes in the country, the people and himself. He left Chile at twenty-four and returned at forty-seven. Every human knows what it's like to wonder where time goes, and to reflect on what has been gained and lost over the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne variable that has not changed for Hazuka is that he is an American. In South America, like it or not he is a representative in developing nations of the richest and most powerful country on the planet. The intricacies of that relationship and the dynamics it creates are the focus of \u003cem\u003eIf You Turn to Look Back\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface--“             We Are in Pain”             \t\t\t\t5Chapter One--The Politics of Goodbye\t\t8Chapter Two--Sweet and Right\t\t\t14Chapter Three--Sea A Tranquility\t\t\t19Chapter Four--The Gringo Advantage\t\t26Chapter Five--Misma Mierda, Distintas Moscas\t44Chapter Six--A Finite Window\t\t\t51Chapter Seven--The Snows of Yesteryear \t\t64Chapter Eight—             The Broken House\t\t\t83Chapter Nine--Pilgrimage to Pisagua \t\t92Chapter Ten--The Past on Paper\t\t\t105Chapter Eleven--On Time\t\t\t\t120Chapter Twelve--Barriers: Broken Glass, Velvet Ropes and Dotted Lines\t\t\t131Chapter Thirteen--Santiago Mon Amour \t\t143Chapter Fourteen--The Concatenation Connection\t168Epilogue\t\t\t\t\t\t191Appendices\t\t\t\t\t\t193","brand":"Woodhall Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53192484454743,"sku":"9781954907669","price":17.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/if-you-turn-to-look-back-a-memoir-and-meditation-9781954907669","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}