“The reporting and writing is truly stunning.” –Sandy Bergo, Executive Director, Fund for Investigative Journalism

In 2006, Mac McClelland arrived as a volunteer in Thailand and found herself unexpectedly living with associates of a US-designated terrorist organization battling Burma’s dictatorship. Her staggering story explores the world’s longest-running war through her housemates, refugees who risk their lives documenting their government’s secret ethnic-cleansing campaign. Intensely engaging and extraordinarily researched, For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question is an intimate account of McClelland’s time among Burmese rebels–whose country, she discovers, shares surprising historical and contemporary entanglements with her own.

Hear Mac talk about the book on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate, Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview, Texas NPR’s Think, Wisconsin Public Radio’s Here on Earth, Seattle NPR’s The Conversation, or Portland KBOO’s A Deeper Look.