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WAITING FOR AN ORDINARY DAY
By: Farnaz Fassihi
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, Iraqβs 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 Iraqβs last best hope for a stable country: its ordinary working and middle class. Farnaz Fassihi, The Wall Street Journalβs intrepid senior Middle East correspondent, bridges this gap by unveiling an Iraq that has remained largely hidden since the United States declared their βMission Accomplished.β 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 silentβfrom art gallery owners to clairvoyants, taxi drivers to radicalized teenagersβ 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.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - October 27, 2008
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