Compound Memorandum

Compound Memorandum is a piece of fiction written by journalist James W. Foley. A graduate of the Medill School of Journalism, Foley's fictional account of compound life in Baghdad illuminates the bureaucratic side of the salarymen of the Occupation of Iraq. Tucked into self-sufficient compounds with aggressive security, the salarymen rarely leave the compound. The narrator of Compound Memorandum indentures himself to an emotional larceny that is perhaps a reaction to the emotional distance and isolation the salarymen feel on these compounds.