· From the author of Wolf Season and The Lonely Soldier, and informed by numerous interviews with those who were there, Sand Queen is a “heartbreaking, vivid story of the particular Category: Free. Helen Benedict's brilliant new novel has done just that with this century's American war in Iraq. Sand Queen is an important book by one of our finest literary artists. -- "Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author". The Things They Carried for women in Iraq. -- "Boston Globe"/5(49). Culled from real-life stories of female soldiers and Iraqis, Sand Queen offers a story of hope, courage, and struggle from the rare perspective of women at war. Read more Read less © Helen Benedict (P) AudioGO/5(49).
Sand Queen is an important book by one our finest literary artists." —Robert Olen Butler "Helen Benedict's compelling story provides an intimate picture of what it means to be a soldier, what it's like to live on the battlefield, and what the ethical choices are that our troops have had to make in Iraq. URL. Helen Benedict is an award-winning novelist, a writer of nonfiction, and a professor of journalism at Columbia University. Her seventh and newest novel, Wolf Season, is to be published by Bellevue Literary Press in October, The novel tells the story of how, after a hurricane devastates a small town in upstate New York, the lives of. Benedict, Helen. "Sand Queen", Soho Press, Women at War Amos Lassen "Sand Queen" is a collection of "stories of hope, courage and struggle" and told from the "perspective of women at war" and written as a novel. War has terrible effects on everyone and here we get a unique look at how it effects.
Helen Benedict’s Sand Queen tells the stories of nineteen-year-old American soldier Kate Brady and Iraqi medical student Naema Jassim in Iraq in I don’t usually enjoy war novels, so I wasn’t sure how much I’d like this one, but I quickly found myself engrossed in the tales of both women. Culled from real-life stories of female soldiers and Iraqis, Sand Queen offers a story of hope, courage, and struggle from the rare perspective of women at war. Read more Read less © Helen Benedict (P) AudioGO. Helen Benedict. ratings80 reviews. Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and democracy to the Middle East. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in , guarding a makeshift American prison. There, Kate meets Naema Jassim, an Iraqi medical student whose father and little brother have been detained in the camp.
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