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The Unraveling of Life in Iraq
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September 2008
On Sale: September 8, 2008
304 pages
ISBN: 1586484753
EAN: 9781586484750
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Since 2003, Iraq’s bloody legacy has been well-documented
by journalists, historians, politicians, and others
confounded by how Americans were seduced into the war. Yet
almost no one has spoken at length to the constituency that
represents Iraq’s last best hope for a stable country: its
ordinary working and middle class.
Farnaz Fassihi, The Wall Street Journal’s intrepid senior
Middle East correspondent, bridges this gap by unveiling an
Iraq that has remained largely hidden since the United
States declared their “Mission Accomplished.” Fassihi
chronicles the experience of the disenfranchised as they
come to terms with the realities of the overthrow of Saddam
Hussein. In an unforgettable portrait of Iraqis whose
voices have remained eerily silent—from art gallery owners
to clairvoyants, taxi drivers to radicalized teenagers—
Fassihi brings to life the very people whose goodwill the
U.S. depended upon for a successful occupation. Haunting
and lyrical, Waiting for An Ordinary Day tells the long-
awaited story of post-occupation Iraq through native eyes.
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