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Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War
By Anthony Shadid
Picador, 507 pages, $15 paper
As violence spreads through the Middle East, this book–a finalist for last year’s non-fiction award from the National Book Critics Circle, of which I am a board member–can be read now as a history of how Sunnis and Shiites and jihadists lived in post-Hussein Iraq. Through his portraits of a wide range of ordinary citizens–those called to battle, those who sought answer in prayer–Anthony Shadid shows us people looking desperately for hope.
