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Soho Press
August 2013
On Sale: August 5, 2013
304 pages
ISBN: 1569479666
EAN: 9781569479667
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Literature and Fiction | Military | Multicultural Fiction
Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor
to her family and democracy to the Middle East. Instead, she
finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in
2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. There, Kate
meets Naema Jassim, an Iraqi medical student whose father
and little brother have been detained in the camp. Kate and
Naema promise to help each other, but the war soon strains
their intentions. Like any soldier, Kate must face the daily
threats of combat duty, but as a woman, she is in equal
danger from the predatory men in her unit. Naema suffers
bombs, starvation, and the loss of her home and family. As
the two women struggle to survive and hold on to the people
they love, each comes to have a drastic and unforeseeable
effect on the other’s life. Culled from real life stories of
female soldiers and Iraqis, Sand Queen offers a story of
hope, courage and struggle from the rare perspective of
women at war.
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