Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady's vision of bringing honor to her family and democracy to the Middle East is tarnished when she joins the Army only to be assigned to a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003 as a prison guard, but she become acquainted with Naema Jassim, an Iraqi medical student whose father and brother are detainees, and through their parallel struggles to survive and hold tight to the people they love, the young women have a profound affect on each other's lives.
- ISBN10 1569479666
- ISBN13 9781569479667
- Publish Date 2 August 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Soho Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 315
- Language English