Global Attrocities
Draining the Sea, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, 2008
Los Angeles River Construction 
A most unusual and challenging novel. The narrator lives in Los Angeles, the son of an Armenian (1915 Turkish Massacre) and a Lebanese (Civil war throughout the 1990s) mother and an American father. The narrator reflects on paradise (Los Angeles) which usurped its river and drained lakes to make the modern city possible. The author is obsessed with another massacre occurring in a remote Indian village in Guatemala in 1982. The massacre has no photos, no video, no outside western witnesses and is only known from first hand accounts. The narrator believes himself to be in love with a young pregnant girl who was killed along with her unborn baby in the massacre.
Guatemala Genocide 
The title comes from a saying attributed to General Rios Montt, military dictator in Guatemala:
The guerrilla is the fish. The people are the sea. If you cannot catch the fish, you have to drain the sea.
General Rios Montt 