Anna Badkhen is the author of The World Is a Carpet, Afghanistan by Donkey, Waiting for the Taliban, and Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories. Her reporting from four continents, including the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Chechnya, has appeared in the New York Times, New Republic, Foreign Policy, and other publications.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed. Th...[SEE MORE]