Take What You Can Carry by Gian Sardar
It’s 1979, Olivia Murray, who is a secretary at a Los Angeles newspaper, has aspirations of becoming a photojournalist. Out of the blue, she has a chance to go to Iraq with her Kurdish boyfriend, ostensibly for a weeding of his cousin, but also because he needs to reunite with his family. And so begins this remarkable 2021 novel by Gian Sardar, Take What You Can Carry.In her acknowledgments at the end of the book, Sarder explains that "... Kurdistan is spread over four countries, so isolation has
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