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Read [Helen Benedict Book] # Sand Queen Online ! PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Sand Queen Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and democracy to the Middle East. 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. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. As the two women struggle to survive and hold on to the people th
| Title | : | Sand Queen |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.64 (885 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616951842 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 315 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and democracy to the Middle East. 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. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. 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 fromthe rare perspective of women at war.. 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
No end in sight Based on hours of research and interviews with the people who personally experienced combat in Iraq, Helen Benedict has written an intelligent and thought provoking commentary on the reality of war. Told by two young women, Army Specialist Kate Brady who guards detainees and Naema, a young Iraqi woman seeking information about her imprisoned father and lit. An okay "awareness novel" This is what I call an "awareness novel," a book intended primarily to inform readers about some tragic contemporary situation. At its best, the awareness novel can inspire real-world change: see Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (although ironically, the change that book inspired wasn't what Sinclair had in mind). But there's a reason few people read The Jungle. Peggy Tibbetts said A gripping horror story. Helen Benedict's fictional portrait of female soldiers during the Iraq war is based on her research for The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, which focuses on the true stories of five female soldiers.This story, "Sand Queen" revolves around two young women caught up in the Iraq war. Specialist Kate Brady, 19, is a guard at a makeshi
Benedict pulls off this audacious gambit because she is an exceptional writer and storyteller. Benedict's gutsy prose. Benedict tells her story from two perspectives—that of a young American woman—a soldier—and a young Iraqi woman—a medical student—both of whose worlds are ravaged by the war. Army and serving in Iraq."—Los Angeles Times“Benedict, an author of both fiction and nonfiction (Sailor’s Wife; Virgin or Vamp), offers distinctive cr
Helen Benedict, a Columbia University professor, has written four previous novels, five nonfiction books, and a play. . Her novels have received citations for best book of the year from the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago and New York Public Libraries
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