Other Writing by Rye

Books

It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace

“Rye Barcott has given us a truly amazing memoir—humane, harrowing, inspiring, and complex in its portrayal of an almost paradoxical accommodation between Eros and Thanatos. This is at least as much a compassionate and emboldening manifesto as it is a work of autobiography.”

Tim O’Brien

author of The Things They Carried

“A wild ride of a book”

Bono

“A tremendous story of the power of friendship, love, and the transforming grace of God.”

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

“An unforgettable odyssey. We need more of these wonderful affirmative tales of how good can triumph in Africa, as it can anywhere.”

Alexander McCall Smith

author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

“(It) reveals fundamental truths about good, evil, and our common humanity.”

Ishamel Beah

author of A Long Way Gone

“Rye Barcott’s engaging and candid memoir on the catalytic power of participatory development shows us that, whether we are in the slums of the world’s biggest cities, in rural Haiti, or on college campuses, we can learn from Tabitha, Salim, and Rye—a nurse, a community organizer, and a young Marine living in urban poverty—about how to fight extreme privation and bring about lasting change.”

Dr. Paul Farmer

Professor at Harvard Medical School; Co-founder, Partners In Health