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Also by Deborah Copaken Kogan:

The Red Book, April 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Hell Is Other Parents, August 2009
Paperback
Between Here And April, October 2008
Hardcover
Shutterbabe, January 2002
Trade Size (reprint)

SHUTTERBABE
By: Deborah Copaken Kogan

Adventures in Love and War

Random House
January 2002
On Sale: January 1, 2002
336 pages
ISBN: 0375758682
EAN: 9780375758683
Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Memoir

Fresh out of college and passionate about photography, Deborah Copaken Kogan moved to Paris in 1988 and began knocking on photo agency doors, begging to be given a photojournalism assignment. Within weeks she was on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, the only woman—and the only journalist—in a convoy of mujahideen, the rebel “freedom fighters” at the time. She had traveled there with a handsome but dangerously unpredictable Frenchman, and the interwoven stories of their relationship and the assignment set the pace for Shutterbabe’s six chapters, each covering a different corner of the globe, each linked to a man in Kogan’s life at the time.

From Zimbabwe to Romania, from Russia to Haiti, Kogan takes her readers on a heartbreaking yet surprisingly hilarious journey through a mine-strewn decade, seamlessly blending her personal battles—sexism, battery, life-threatening danger—with the historical ones—wars, revolution, unfathomable suffering—it was her job to record.

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