In WAR AND ME, readers learn the realities of war for innocent citizens: crushing poverty and starvation, constant danger and fear, job loss, severe lack of medical care, and loss of security and freedom. This is also a story about religion, education, politics, sexism, culture, love and loss. Now, in WAR AND ME, Faleeha Hassan has written a riveting, courageous coming-of-age story told through the lens of war. Through verse, she was able to process the horrors of life during wartime she was able to give voice to her faith, family and friends, and her hope for the future. A nominee for both the Pulitzer and Pushcart Prizes, Faleeha Hassan is known the world over as “the Maya Angelou of Iraq,” her poems having been translated into twenty-one languages.
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