Patrick Strickland is the author of Alerta! Alerta! Snapshots of Europe’s Anti-Fascist Struggle, The Marauders: Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands, and You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave: Refugees, Fascism, and Bloodshed in Greece.
His debut short story collection, A History of Heartache, is filled with fourteen stories that chart the small mercies and big mistakes that make a life.
We asked him to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know the books that shaped his life and influenced his writing.
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