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Podcast: New Books in Biography & Memoir
Episode: Faleeha Hassan, "War and Me" (Amazon Crossing, 2022)
Description: An intimate memoir about coming of age in a tight-knit working-class family during Iraq's seemingly endless series of wars.Faleeha Hassan became intimately acquainted with loss and fear while growing up in Najaf, Iraq. Now, in a deeply personal account of her life, she remembers those she has loved and lost.As a young woman, Faleeha hated seeing her father and brother go off to fight, and when she needed to reach them, she broke all the rules by traveling alone to the war's front lines--just one of many shocking and moving examples of her...