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Sand queen / Helen Benedict.

Title
Sand queen / Helen Benedict.
Author
Benedict, Helen.
Publication
New York : Soho Press, c2011.

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TextRequest in advance PS3552.E5397 S26 2011Off-site

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Description
315 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Women soldiers > Fiction
  • Americans > Iraq > Fiction
  • Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • War stories.
  • Fiction
  • War stories
  • War fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781569479667
  • 1569479666
LCCN
^^2011013334
OCLC
681488810
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library