Drawn to the secret fabrications of these strangers, and increasingly convinced the events that led to the fatal explosion weren't random, Michiko follows a paper trail that leads beyond Kabul to Louisiana, Maine, Quebec, and Dubai. As the investigation deepens, Michiko's research steadily uncovers old grudges and secret traumas, private desires that have public consequences. The victims' fictions of omission make each complicit in his or her own death. In a city of contesting accounts, the American state's manipulation of the war narrative-writ large on an international stage-is undercut by the innumerable, privately manipulated narratives running in and through each individual life. Though Afghanistan is occupied territory, Kabul belongs to the people that live there: to the hungry, determined, and resourceful locals who are just as willing as their occupiers to reinvent themselves to survive.
- | Author: Deni Ellis Bechard
- | Publisher: Milkweed Editions
- | Publication Date: Sep 20, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 456 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
- | ISBN-10: 1571311149
- | ISBN-13: 9781571311146