Sand Queen

Name: Sand Queen
Price: 8.85 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781569479667

ISBN-10: 1569479666

ISBN-13: 9781569479667

Edition: 2011

Authors: Helen Benedict

List price: $28.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $8.85

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Private Kate Carlson is nineteen years old in 2003 when she is deployed to Iraq. On a remote base in a desolate expanse of Iraqi desert, Kate meets a nineteen-year-old Iraqi medical student named Naema, a smart and angry young woman whose father and thirteen-year-old brother have been, she believes, wrongfully detained in the US prisoner camp. Naema would do anything for news of her family, and when she convinces Kate her English is good enough to translate for the other prisoners' families, the two women strike up an uneasy friendship. But the stresses of war may prove too much for their tenuous relationship. Kate enlisted in the Army to show her dad she was tough-but being tough doesn't…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Soho Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/2/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Helen Benedict teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her profiles of authors and celebrities have appeared in magazines throughout the country, including The New York Times Book Reviewand Esquire.