Viet Thanh Nguyen serves as editor for a short but impactful collection of essays about refugees and the refugee experience. I read a lot about immigration. I'm not entirely unaware that many of these stories are actually about refugees, but it's interesting that people often morph themselves into "...
THE SHADOW OF THE CRESCENT MOON is a riveting story that place over a couple hours on a rainy Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, as three brothers and two of the women they love find their past, present, and future merge together. It is the thriller-lik...
Bhutto really makes the Pakistan/Afghanistan border region come alive for me in this remarkable book. The level of mistrust and suffering is palpable, but at the same time, these characters are real people trying to somehow make real lives for themselves. Some are more prone to ideology than other...
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